Ringling-Barnum 1920's #2

SAVE2844, originally uploaded by bucklesw1. "John L. Sullivan" in the lead as the herd arrives on the lot from the train. The show usually carried over thirty in those days, the big 40-elephant herds never developed until the 1930's when the Great Depression began to eliminate John Ringling's Circus Empire and as each show vanished the elephants were absorbed into the remaining herds. By 1933, RBBB had 42, Hagenbeck-Wallace had 29 and 14 with Al G. Barnes.