Friday, October 08, 2010

Barnum Show #3


Scan13146, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Posted by Buckles at 10/08/2010 06:26:00 AM

2 comments:

Frank Ferrante said...

Buckles -

Was this an actual display? Can an elephant support another standing on its back? ~frank

08 October, 2010 09:26
Unknown said...

I love that picture - or its very many variations (most variations show one row). I'd love to have seen that version though! - there seem to have been more than enough injuries to those jumping when they just increased 1 row of elephants one by one up to about four. I can remember one UK paper in 1889-90 mentioning one of the jumpers who had been injured over 20 times doing the act. They all seemed to be trying to manage two-three somersaults, but did not always succeed with broken limbs, etc. resulting.

Fred Neill

12 October, 2010 05:52

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