30387.
Joe, the Educated Orangutan.
Circus Parade, Rochester, NY. 1890. Information from Fred Dahlinger: This view is either a late 1880s Barnum & London parade or an early 1890s Barnum & Bailey parade. The noteworthy feature is the lead elephant with howdah and the “sidesaddle” riders on either side, aloft on little platforms.
Circus Elephants. Information from Fred Dahlinger: I have seen this also in an orange mount. It was in company with another orange mount showing a wagon from the 1870s with the Yankee Robinson circus. The same pair of punk elephants were also in it. Location given as Rockford, IL fairgrounds Yankee was a companion with the Ringling brothers in their 1884 inaugural tour.
5723. Acrobats far from their mountain home–grizzly bears in a street at Jacksonville, Florida.
3248. A Daring Leap, Illustrating Gen. DeWet’s Escape, Boer War Spectacle, World’s Fair, St. Louis, Mo.
