Thursday, August 04, 2011

More on John Robinson Elephants #6

Note the two cottage style cages on the right as well as, possibly, two standing tuskers in the middle.
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Posted by Buckles at 8/04/2011 06:01:00 AM

2 comments:

Dick Flint said...

Of the three cages seen, the one to the far right is a cottage cage numbered 29 that remained on Wallace's Peru farm after he acquired the physical property of the Robinson show soon after Mugivan and Bowers bought the title. It remained on his farm when the American Circus Corporation acquired the property and was then used on the Sells-Floto show. The cage to the far left is a bit of a mystery to me. Dick Conover's magnum opus on the Robinson parade of 1900-11 states the only non-cottage cage style wagon on the show was the snake den but this certainly does not appear to be it.
Dick Flint
Baltimore

04 August, 2011 09:22
Harry Kingston said...

Dick,
Many thanks for all the history and information on the Robinson shows.
This is a first for me seeing inside there meg. tent.
I always heard it was supreme in the South.
Also the trouble they had in Jacksonville, Texas was something.
Thanks again so much.
Harry in Texas

04 August, 2011 15:01

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