For Jim Alexander--Unknown

For Jim Alexander--Sparky Como Park Zoo Year Unknown

For Jim Alexander--Zoo Jean Richard 1981

For Jim Alexander-- Cincinnati Zoo Year Unknown

For Jim Alexander--Captain Mansen's Sea lion wagon and Pool Year Unknown

For Jim Alexander--The Trainer Weston and Seals Year Unknown

Are these Harbor seals?

For Jim Alexander--Captain Judges Sea lions and Dogs Year Unkown

Actually Jim, there are 3 of us sea lion fans.............

Menagerie Frank Bostock--Pete Taylor

Year Unknown.  I did not realize until today that Pete Taylor, mentor to the great Clyde Beatty, was with Frank Bostock's Menagerie.  I get ill when I look at those wonderful twisted willow whip's, that are now all but impossible to come by. 

1924

By 1923 Clyde was working small mixed groups of big cats, hyenas and bears to start 42 uninterrupted seasons in the steel arena. He was strictly a circus man, but has been incorrectly described as a big-game hunter. In 1925, on the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus, trainer Pete Taylor suffered a physical collapse, and young Clyde took over the big mixed lion-and-tiger act of 25 animals that became the signature of his career.

Also in 1923, Beatty met Peter Taylor, a great cat trainer, to whom Beatty later credited his own showmanship. This was the beginning of 42 continuous seasons of Beatty working as a wild animal trainer. 
  
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Bandwagon, July 1965

 

 

Menagerie Frank Bostock

Paris. Jardin zoologique d'Acclimatation. Ecole de dressages de fauves  1910

 Paris. Jardin zoologique d'Acclimatation 1910.  Elephant, formally known as Laos, is currently known as Star, pictured with the trainer Schultz a student of negro Thomson?  I wonder if  "Thomson" was referring to Ephraim ‘Eph’ Thompson?

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Frank Bostock Menagerie--Luna Park Paris 1909

The redskin snake eater?(that's how mangeur de serpents translates) Osca.

The redskin snake eater Osca in his grave?(that's how "fosse" translates)   Above him good luck amulets in snake skin and bones.

The Circus "NO SPIN ZONE": Bostock & Wombwell's Snake Charmer