Thursday, July 04, 2013

To Chic Silber #1


In answer to your question, the first elephants owned by the Ringlings were "Babe" and "Fannie" (African), purchased from the defunct Dan Castello Show in 1888.
This 1894 picture includes both of them after becoming a railroad show in excess of 30 cars.

Posted by Buckles at 7/04/2013 05:59:00 AM

4 comments:

Chic Silber said...


Thanks Buckles was this before or

after Barnum brought Jumbo over

04 July, 2013 10:02
Buckles said...

Jumbo was brought over from the London Zoo in 1882 and tried to out race a speeding locomotive Sept. 15, 1885.

04 July, 2013 11:16
Chic Silber said...


Reminds me of that historic Roman

sports score "Lions 3 Gladiators

nothing" but here the score was

"Iron Horse 1 Elephants nothing"

04 July, 2013 12:17
Jimmy Cole said...

Newport, RI, 1895

05 July, 2013 12:29

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