Photo caption reads: "Doing a 'big' job, Long Beach firemen are shown washing elephants of the Al G. Barnes and Sells Floto combined circus when it visited the beach city over the week-end. The fire department was called into wash the circus' five herds of elephants so the huge beasts would be spotlessly clean for the show's three-day run in Hollywood. The circus now is playing at the Wilshire and Fairfax lot." Photo dated: April 5, 1937.
Al G. Barnes Circus (Culver City, Calif.) Sells-Floto Circus Circus--California--Long Beach Elephants--California--Long Beach Long Beach (Calif.) Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
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