Sunday, June 21, 2015

Parade Wagons #16


Posted by Buckles at 6/21/2015 04:30:00 AM

3 comments:

Bob Cline said...

What a terrific photo Buckles. I had never seen one with the telescoping elephant on it before. Thank you for sharing these great parade wagons with us.

I would have to wonder how long this telescoping elephant stayed on the wagon after being built. By the 1890s, it was gone when on the Adam Forepaugh Show.

While I don't know the history of this wagon or even what it was called, I have a picture of it sitting in the Barnum & Bailey WQ in Bridgeport. So apparently, it was on a couple different shows at least.

Bob

21 June, 2015 08:14
Dick Flint said...

This is from a stereo in my collection and was posted on this blog on Monday, May 12, 2008, with a short history. Called the "Car of India," it came over from England when Seth B. and nephew Egbert Howes returned from their single year British tour and was on their Great London show debuted in the US in 1871. By the late 1870s, the Great London was under other ownership and struggling financially and came into the hands of show printer James Reiley who quickly sold the equipment to James A. Bailey. Cooper & Bailey had toured Australia and South America, where they sold their show equipment before returning. From there it follows the path of Bailey owned shows. I think the top was removed in the late 1880s; the backboard of the howdah survives.

21 June, 2015 14:18
Ole Whitey said...

Bob: I think this wagon was brought back from England by Howes, stayed on Howes then to Cooper & Bailey, then Barnum & London, then Barnum & Bailey, then Forepaugh-Sells, finally on Mugivan's Van Amburgh show prior to 1910. I await corrections.

21 June, 2015 14:30

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