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Picture No 11949544
Date 1882
Description Jumbo the elephant: on the way to Millwall docks
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Jumbo the African elephant was purchased by the American showman P.T Barnum from at the Zoological Society of London in 1882. Jumbo's departure to America was covered with great interest in the British press, with The Illustrated London News dedicating a front page to his journey. Here Jumbo is being hoisted in a crate or cage from a barge to the quay at Millwall docks, from where he would commence his journey to America.
Source Unattributed engraving in The Illustrated London News, 1st April 1882, page 297
Credit © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
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