2009 Calendar #196

Elephant trainer Frank "Cheerful" Gardner performs the "human pendulum", Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus 1930's." "Hardly think this is Gardner's handwriting, elephant's name was "Blanche". Note the disfigured ear, might have been chewed in a fight but more likely frozen and partially cut off due to a long winter march from Peru to the Winter Quarters. A fairly common occurrence." Buckles