Tuesday, December 13, 2005

Seils-Sterling Circus #2


"Billy Sunday" was the shows first elephant, coming from Sells-Floto in 1928. When originally imported by Wm. Hall in 1909 he was named "Billy" after Hall's son but after being sold to Hagenbeck-Wallace in 1914 after the Peru flood, for some reason he was re christened after the popular evangelist Billy Sunday.
Here we see Milt Herriott and Al Lindeman in a practice session.

Posted by Buckles at 12/13/2005 06:58:00 AM

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Was Billy Sunday a elephant from
Sumatra or Borneo?

17 December, 2005 17:14

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