Thursday, October 30, 2014

Military Elephants #1


These elephants were trained around the turn of the century by Tim Buckley and performed such skits at the "dinner table", "barber shop", etc. but are best remembered as the Military Elephants and were so well received the Robinson family retained the elephants after they closed their circus in 1911 and booked them on Fair Dates, Vaudeville, etc. for many years.


3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Why were they known as "Military Elephants"? (was it the same as being the "Woodcock Elephants" or did they actually serve in the military?)

Buckles said...

They did a Battle Scene, a popular subject of the day, that included elephants firing cannons, carrying wounded soldiers from the battlefield, etc.

Paul Gutheil said...

and of course they saluted.