Circus, Sideshow & Oddities
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Lot 38
Cabinet Photo of Gypsy and Baby Barney, Circus Elephants. C...
Estimate: $200 - $300
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Cabinet Photo of Gypsy and Baby Barney, Circus Elephants. Chicago: Thompson, ca. 1890s. Photograph of the elephants with several men outside a tent. Studio mount, gilt lettered. Identification printed in the negative. 4 ? x 6 ??. Gypsy was owned by the W.H. Harris Nickel-Plate Shows, in Chicago, who purchased her from W.W. Cole?s Circus. She was known as a ?man-killer? elephant. By 1885, the Chicago Inter-Ocean reported, she had killed six of her trainers, though her trainer at the time added that ?she will not hurt women or children, or permit a horse or dog to be beaten in her presence.? Gypsy was killed in 1902 after trampling to death yet another trainer.
