Monday, November 12, 2007

Sparks Circus 1920's #8


Scan000010451, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Babe Pope posing with elephants in 1928.
Big elephant is "Myrtle". I don't know why they had those looping straps attached beneath each headpiece. Louis Reed started that about ten years earlier and it looks like a clumsy thing to contend with and something else to keep the elephants from chewing on.

Posted by Buckles at 11/12/2007 06:01:00 AM

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Maybe this was to keep them from grabbing something important, like the tent guy lines.

12 November, 2007 20:03

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