Saturday, August 18, 2018

AFRICANS #13


2 comments:

Chic Silber said...


They called him "Big Mike"

but with all that hardware

they should have called him

"Jacob Marley"

Richard Reynolds said...

That's Mike on the Forepaugh-Sells show. He joined out with Sells Bros in ca. 1890 with his mate Topsy. Mike was badly burned in a fire in the elephant car in up-state NY in ca. 1905. He was sent to the Barnum qtrs. in nearby Bridgeport to recover but died there. Topsy went into the Barnum herd.