Hagenbeck-Wallace early 1920's #3

Scan10005, originally uploaded by bucklesw1. Joe Robinson riding "Tess", the tusker "Louis" at right. In the 1922 H-W Route Book I found: Bert Noyes- Menagerie Supt......Bert Partridge- Asst. Elephants- Joe Robinson Performing elephants- Wm. Woodcock.....E.H. Davis This was a bit of a surprise since my dad was only 18 at the time and readily admitted that he never really learned anything until he went to work for Cheerful Gardner the following year on the Barnes Show.