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 Jumbo, via Tufts Digital Library
In May of 2016 the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus’ elephants performed for their final time before entering retirement. Over 130 years earlier, in 1882, Jumbo the elephant left London for New York and joined P.T. Barnum’s traveling menagerie. In this episode, Christine explores Jumbo’s life as one of the Victorian era’s most famous animals.
Podcaster: Christine
Further Reading
Main Jumbo image for this episode (Tufts Digital Library) Gail Bambrick, "Big Man on Campus", Tufts Now, April 21, 2015. Paul Chambers, Jumbo: This Being the True Story of the Greatest Elephant in the World, Steerforth Press, (2008). Matthew Scott, Autobiography of Matthew Scott Jumbo’s Keeper and Jumbo’s Biography, Trow’s Printing and Bookbinding Company, (1885). Ginger Yowell, "Everyone Loves a Circus", Smithsonian Institute Archives: The Bigger Picture, June 2, 2010. Jumbo the Elephant at Tufts University. "Alice and Jumbo", The New York Times, April 21, 1886, via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. "Arrival of Jumbo's Widow", The New York Times, April 18, 1886, via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. "Barnum's Great Show", The New York Times, March 23, 1886, via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. "The Elephantine Immigrant", New York Herald, April 10, 1882, via America's Historical Newspapers. "The Elephants Cross the Bridge", The New York Times, May 18, 1884, via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. "Jumbo, the Elephant", New York Herald, March 7, 1882, via America's Historical Newspapers. "Jumbo Leaving London", The New York Times, April 8, 1882, via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. "Jumbo's Old Chum", The New York Times, February 11, 1887, via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. "A Reminiscence of Jumbo", The New York Times, May 1, 1887, via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. "Scott and Jumbo", Springfield Daily Republican, September 21, 1885, via America's Historical Newspapers. Music: "Evening Melodrama" by Kevin Macleod (www.incompetech.com)
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