Thursday, August 16, 2012

From Jerry Digney #5

RBBBNYC50sELEPH by bucklesw1
RBBBNYC50sELEPH, a photo by bucklesw1 on Flickr.

From Buckles:
Don't know who the man is but the elephant is Wallace show "Babe"

BABE
1911-15 Frank A. Robbins
1916-21 Santos Y Artegas (Cuba)
1922 John Robinson (Amer. Circus corp.)
1923-35 Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus
1936 Peru Indiana Quarters
1937-38 Hagenbeck-Wallace (Howard Y. Berry)
1939 Baldwin Park Quarters
1939-66 Ringling-Barnum

(Donated to Ralph Emerson Farm in Hartford, Conn. in 1966.)

Posted by Buckles at 8/16/2012 06:25:00 AM

2 comments:

Ryan Easley said...

According to a 1974 news article, the Emerson farm was taken by the state to make room for a new highway. Numerous animals, including Babe the elephant, were donated to the Waco, Texas, zoo.

16 August, 2012 11:46
Dick Flint said...

That makes for a pretty old elephant!
Dick Flint
Baltimore

16 August, 2012 13:37

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