Thursday, November 18, 2010

"Big Charlie" #1


Scan13240, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Mr. Cornish, off hand this display from the Circus Museum in Peru,
Indiana is the only thing that comes to mind. I'm sure I have a few more
pictures along this line stored away,
I also have a bunch of tusks, knobs, martingale bands, etc. scattered around.
Maybe I should start my own Museum.
You are right, possibly some of my Blog Contributors could add to this.

Posted by Buckles at 11/18/2010 07:21:00 AM

2 comments:

Frank Ferrante said...

Buckles -

I don't know if this is on exhibit, but the skeletal remains of Barnum's JUMBO were "donated to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

The elephant's heart was sold to Cornell University. Jumbo's hide was stuffed by William J. Critchley and Carl Akeley, both of Ward's Natural Science, and the mounted specimen traveled with Barnum's circus for a number of years. In 1889, Barnum donated the stuffed Jumbo to Tufts University, where it was displayed until destroyed by a fire in 1975, coincidentally a fate that befell many of Barnum's exhibits during his own lifetime." (According to Wikipedia). ~frank

18 November, 2010 08:45
Ole Whitey said...

The Museum of Natural History does occasionally display the skeleton. One year- I believe 1993- they showed it while RBBB was in town.

There was a movie twenty or thirty years ago that showed a conversation taking place at the museum and in the background you could see the skeleton and I believe a sign identifying it. Wish I had written the name of the movie down.

This is just one of many things on my list of things I wish I had done or hadn't done or still could do.

18 November, 2010 21:37

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