Thursday, February 23, 2006

Kelly-Miller Circus 1945 #1


Nice shot of the midway. Obert Miller holding a zebra, Kelly Miller with a llama and no idea who the rest might be. D.R. was away in the Army.
The three elephants were "Tena", "Mary Ann" and "Mona". Mary Ann had been originally imported by William Randolph Hearst for his estate in San Simeon, CA in the 1930's. I have wondered if she was named for Marion Davies but the name later became altered.

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