Friday, November 18, 2005

Robinson Miliary Elephants #3


Of all the Vaudeville skits they did, the war number is best remembered and in fact they became known as the John Robinson Military Elephants. This publicity picture and the next appear to have been taken at a military base. The act didn't include this type of weaponery but they did have a cannon on stage that was fired

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

I read somewhere where a
Maharaja in India offered President Abraham Lincoln some elephants during the Civil War,but it was considered impractical for some reason.