Moving Jumbo into Barnum Museum

Moving Jumbo into Barnum Museum

Believed to have been taken on April 3, 1889, this rare photograph posthumously shows the famed circus elephant Jumbo (died 1885) formerly owned by circus showman P.T. Barnum sitting outside the Barnum Museum of Natural History on the Tufts College campus in Medford, Mass. before being placed on display.

Image varient: Moving Jumbo into Barnum Museum, 1889:  Tufts University Archives: ID: tufts: UA136.002.DO.00823

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Image Dimensions 8.3 x 11.0 cm brown-toned gelatin silver print

Support Dimensions10.8 x 13.2 cm cabinet card