Newspaper: England's Loss is America's Gain
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Newspaper: England's Loss is America's Gain
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Newspaper coverage from an unknown British publication regarding the sale of Jumbo the Elephant from the London Zoo to P.T. Barnum entitled \England's Loss is America's Gain.\ The pages feature information about Jumbo's departure from England and includes various letters addressed to Barnum protesting Jumbo's loss. It includes letters from young children. The illustrations include Jumbo chained up; Jumbo having torn off a large tree branch with his trunk and a man running from him; Jumbo getting into the shipping crate; Jumbo in trains lifting his trunk up and a man below him managing the chains; Jumbo in the ocean water trying to swim and shooting water out of his trunk with a number of panicked beach goers behind him. Jumbo the Elephant (1861-September 17, 1885) was an unusually tall African elephant best known for his time as an attraction in the London Zoo and as a part of P.T. Barnum's circus from 1882 to his death in 1885. His sale from the London Zoo to Barnum's circus prompted a great public outcry in England, and Barnum used the publicity to his advantage. Jumbo was killed by a train on Septembe 17r, 1885. Barnum had his hide stuffed and bones mounted to exhibit them as a double Jumbo. The hide eventually went to Tufts University and was there until it burnt in the 1970s, and the bones to the American Museum of Natural History where they remain today.. Measures 14 by 10 inches. Unknown newspaper, 1882.
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Creator (cre): Unknown creator, English
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PTB-jb-np001
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