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Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey "first and only genuine sacred white elephant ever permitted to leave his native land

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Title: Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey "first and only genuine sacred white elephant ever permitted to leave his native land
Creator: Strobridge Lithographing Company, printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1922
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Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of the white elephant Pawah being led down the gangplank of a large ship handled by several men in Indian dress who either lead the elephant or bow before it; a second elephant is visible walking out of the hold; several reporters take photos of the event at bottom right among a crowd of onlookers.
Date supplied by cataloger based date supplied for Alamy poster stock image. "© The Strobridge Litho. Co. Cin'ti & N.Y."--text, bottom right margin. "The world-famed sacred white elephant, Pawah, arriving in New York Harbor from Burma."--text, bottom center of image.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 107.63 x 73.66 cm (42 3/8 x 29 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_ENT_004732
503168
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/5455
Language: English
Subject: Advertising--Circus
Animals--Pictorial works
Barnum and Bailey
Circus animals--Pictorial works
Elephants--Pictorial works
Photographers--Pictorial works
Ships--Pictorial works
Lithographs--Color--1925-1950. (gmgpc)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
Entertainment
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The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library

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