What a wonderful, exotic, mysterious world it was. Imagine being a child and seeing posters/sheets like these. Just magnificent.
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Zoological Menageries--The Good and the Bad Old Days
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Wade G. Burck
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The next to last poster advertises the Sumatran rhino (nowadays an incredibly rare animal) that Forepaugh-Sells exhibited from 1896until about 1900 or so. It had been on the James Bailey controlled Forepaugh circus which collapsed in the economic panic of 1893.
A number of very important Forepaugh animals were then deposited in (loaned to) the new National Zoo in Washington in 1893. They were there until 1896 when Bailey recalled them for use on his new Forepaugh-Sells outfit.
I have a copy of the contract between Bailey and the Sells Bros. The new F-S was essentially the old Sells show augmented with some animals and equipment from Forepaugh, including the rhino.
Bailey wound up with the Sells title as well.
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