From Richard Flint

Ele ride, 1834001, originally uploaded by bucklesw1. Elephant rides are, apparently, "old hat" (note the ladies hats to get a sense of the time period). This is a wonderful 19 by 23 inch woodcut (one of three) on a two-sheet poster from 1834 for the Macomber, Welch & Co.'s Boston Zoological Exhibition, one of the highlights of my collection. Mogul was a male imported by Zebedee Macomber in 1831. He is famous as the "ship-wrecked" elephant having gone down with the ship Royal Tar that was returning this menagerie, by now the Boston unit of the Zoological Institute, from the Canadian Maritime Provinces in 1836. Many folks will recall that Dory Miller later had a very similar boat experience in the Maritimes in the early 1960s though his elephants were not lost but survived to appear at the Eastern States Exposition in the fall in conjunction with the King Reid carnival that long played the fair. This outstanding fair is now known as the Big E where Bob Commerford's elephant rides are now appearing as shown in recent Lane Talburt's posting on this blog. Dick Flint Baltimore