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A rare original die cut circa 1882 of P. T. Barnum\'s Jumbo, the most famous elephant in the world. Dimensions three by two and three quarters inches. Light wear otherwise good. See Jumbo\'s extraordinary biography below.Shipping discounts for multiple purchases. Credit cards accepted with Paypal. Inquiries always welcome. Please visit my other Buy It Now items and sales for more Lotta Crabtree programs and pictorial trade cards, early theatre and historical autographs, photographs and programs and great singer, actor and actress cabinet photos and CDV\'s.

From Wikipedia:

Jumbo(about December 25, 1860 – September 15, 1885), also known asJumbo the ElephantandJumbo the Circus Elephant, was a 19th-century maleAfrican bush elephantborn inSudan. Jumbo was exported toJardin des Plantes, a zoo inParis, and then transferred in 1865 toLondon Zooin England. Despite public protest, Jumbo was sold toP. T. Barnum, who took him to the United States for exhibition in March 1882.

The giant elephant\'s name has spawned the common word \"jumbo,\" meaning large in size.[2]Examples of his lexical impact are phrases like \"jumbo jet\", \"jumbo shrimp,\" \"jumbo marshmallows,\" and \"jumbotron.\" Jumbo\'s shoulder height has been estimated to have been 3.23 metres (10ft 7in) at the time of his death,[1]and was claimed to be about 4m (13ft 1in) by Barnum.

Jumbo is theTufts University mascot,[3]and is referenced by a plaque outside the old Liberal Hall, now aWetherspoonspub, inCrediton.

Jumbo was born around December 25, 1860 inSudan,[citation needed]and after his mother was killed by hunters, the infant Jumbo was captured by Sudanese elephant hunter Taher Sheriff and German big-game hunter Johann Schmidt.[4]The calf was sold to Lorenzo Casanova, an Italian animal dealer and explorer. Casanova transported the animals that he had bought from Sudan north toSuez, and then across theMediterranean SeatoTrieste.

This collection was sold to Gottlieb Christian Kreutzberg\'s \"Menagerie Kreutzberg\"[5][circular reference][6]in Germany.[7]Soon after, the elephant was imported to France and kept in the Paris zooJardin des Plantes. In 1865, he was transferred to theLondon Zooand arrived on 26 June.[8]In the following years, Jumbo became a crowd favorite due to his size, and would give rides to children on his back, including those of Queen Victoria. London zookeeper association leader Anoshan Anathajeyasri gave Jumbo his name; it is likely a variation of one of twoSwahiliwords:jambo, which means \"hello\"; orjumbe, meaning \"chief\".[9]If Anathajeyasri was from India, he possibly named Jumbo after a gigantic rose-apple tree calledjambu(which at that time would be transliterated as \'jumboo\'), which grows on the mythicalMount Meruand whose fruits were said to be as large as elephants.

While in Mexico, Jumbo broke two tusks, and when they regrew, he ground them down against the stonework of his enclosure.[8]His keeper in London was Matthew Scott, whose 1885 autobiography details his life with Jumbo.[8]

In 1882, Abraham Bartlett, superintendent of the London zoo, sparked a national controversy with his decision to sell Jumbo to the American entertainer, Phineas T. Barnum of theBarnum & Bailey Circusfor £2,000 ($10,000 USD).[7]This decision came as a result of concern surrounding Jumbo\'s growing aggression and potential to cause a public disaster. The sale of Jumbo, however, sent the citizens of London into a panic, because they viewed the transaction as an enormous loss for the British empire. 100,000 school children wrote toQueen Victoriabegging her not to sell the elephant.[a]John Ruskin, a fellow of theZoological Society, wrote inThe Morning Postin February 1882: \"I, for one of the said fellows, am not in the habit of selling my old pets or parting with my old servants because I find them subject occasionally, perhaps even \"periodically,\" to fits of ill temper; and I not only \"regret\" the proceedings of the council, but disclaim them utterly, as disgraceful to the city of London and dishonourable to common humanity.\"[10]Despite a lawsuit against the Zoological Gardens alleging the sale was in violation of multiple zoo bylaws, and the zoo\'s attempt to renege on the sale, the court upheld the sale.[7]Matthew Scott elected to go with Jumbo to the USA.[8]The London Daily Telegraph begged Barnum to lay down terms on which he would return Jumbo; however, no such terms existed in the eyes of Barnum.

In New York, Barnum exhibited Jumbo atMadison Square Garden, earning enough in three weeks from the enormous crowds to recoup the money he spent to buy the animal.[7][11]In the 31-week season, the circus earned $1.75M, largely due to its star attraction.[7]On May 17th 1884, Jumbo was one of Barnum\'s 21 elephants that crossed theBrooklyn Bridgeto prove that it was safe after 12 people died during a stampede caused by mass panic over collapse fears a year earlier.[12]

DeathJumbo after being hit by a locomotive on September 15, 1885, inSt. Thomas, OntarioAn 1889 photograph of Jumbo remains at Barnum HallPoster of Jumbo\'s skeletonSurviving fragments of Jumbo from the conflagration[13]

Jumbo died at a railwayclassification yardinSt. Thomas, Ontario, Canada, on September 15, 1885. In those days the circus crisscrossed North America by train. St. Thomas was the perfect location for a circus because many rail lines converged there. Jumbo and the other animals had finished their performances that night, and as they were being led to their box car, a train came down the track. Jumbo was hit and mortally wounded, dying within minutes.[14][15][16]

Barnum told the story that Tom Thumb, a young circus elephant, was walking on the railroad tracks and Jumbo was attempting to lead him to safety. Barnum claimed that the locomotive hit and killed Tom Thumb before it derailed and hit Jumbo, and other witnesses supported Barnum\'s account. According to newspapers, the freight train hit Jumbo directly, killing him, while Tom Thumb suffered a broken leg.[17][18]

Many metallic objects were found in the elephant\'s stomach, includingEnglish pennies, keys, rivets, and apolice whistle.[b]

Ever the showman, Barnum had portions of his star attraction separated, to have multiple sites attracting curious spectators. After touring with Barnum\'s circus,[20]the skeleton was donated to theAmerican Museum of Natural HistoryinNew York City, where it remains.[21][22]The elephant\'s heart was sold toCornell University. Jumbo\'s hide was stuffed by William J. Critchley andCarl Akeley, both ofWard\'s Natural Science, who stretched it during the mounting process; the mounted specimen traveled with Barnum\'s circus for two years.[20]

Barnum eventually donated the stuffed Jumbo toTufts University, where it was displayed atP.T. Barnum Hallthere for many years. The hide was destroyed in a fire in April 1975.[21]Ashes from that fire, which are believed to contain the elephant\'s remains, are kept in a 14-ouncePeter Pan Crunchy Peanut Butterjar in the office of the Tufts athletic director, while his taxidermied tail, removed during earlier renovations, resides in the holdings of the Tufts Digital Collections and Archives.[16]

Legacy

Remaining in the United Kingdom are statues and other memorabilia of Jumbo. The elephant – or rather his statuette in theNatural History Museum– was madeholotypeofRichard Lydekker\'s proposedsubspecies(Loxodonta africana rothschildi) for the large elephants of the easternSahel. Modern authorities do not recognize this (or any other subspecies of African bush elephants), considering its purportedly diagnostic large size and peculiarly shaped ears to be individual variation.

While Jumbo\'s hide resided at Tufts\' P.T. Barnum Hall, a superstition held that dropping a coin into a nostril of the trunk would bring good luck on an examination or sports event.[3]Although the hide was destroyed by a major fire,[21]Jumbo remains the mascot of Tufts, and representations of the elephant are featured prominently throughout the campus.[3]

Jumbo statue in St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada

A life-sized statue of the elephant was erected in 1985 in St. Thomas, Ontario, to commemorate the centennial of the elephant\'s death. It is located on Talbot Street on the west side of the city. In 2006 the Jumbo statue was inducted into theNorth America Railway Hall of Famein the category of \"Railway Art Forms & Events\" as having local significance.[23]

Jumbo was the inspiration of the nickname of the 19th-centuryJumbo Water Towerin the town ofColchesterinEssex, England.

Lucy the Elephant, a Jumbo-inspired building in New Jersey

Lucy the Elephant, a six-story structure inMargate City, New Jersey, was modeled after Jumbo.[citation needed]Built byJames V. Laffertyin 1881, Lucy is the oldest survivingroadside tourist attractionin America and aNational Historic Landmark. Lafferty also made other Jumbo-shaped structures, includingElephantine Colossus, onConey Island.[24]

Jumbo has been lionized on a series of sheet-music covers from roughly 1882–83. The four-colour lithograph of Jumbo was created byAlfred Concanenof England, with the music title \"Why Part With Jumbo\",[c]a song by thelion comiqueofVictorian Britishmusic halls,G. H. MacDermott. It pictured children zoo visitors riding, somewhat precariously, on Jumbo\'s back. Multiple American lithographic music covers were done, including byJ. H. Bufford\'s Sons.

Canadian folk singerJames Gordonwrote the song \"Jumbo\'s Last Ride\", which recounts the story of Jumbo\'s life and death. It is on his 1999 CDPipe Street Dreams.[26]

Canadian professional ice hockey playerJoe Thornton(b. 1979) from St. Thomas, Ontario is nicknamed Jumbo Joe as a homage to Jumbo.[27]

More evidence

A television program about Jumbo,Attenborough and the Giant Elephant, presented by the naturalist and broadcasterDavid Attenborough, was transmitted onBBC Onein the United Kingdom on 10 December 2017.[8]An international team of scientists examined the skeleton and found:

Jumbo\'s molar teeth were malformed and out of line as a result of a long-term soft diet that did not wear his molar teeth down enough, obstructing the forward eruptive movement of the next molar.
Jumbo\'s nightly rages were probably caused by toothache, rather thanmusth, as his keeper thought at the time.
Apost mortemphotograph of Jumbo shows skin abrasions consistent with an illustration produced just after his death of the freight train hitting him on a hip from behind as he was being led across to his traveling carriage, and said that the likeliest cause of death was internal bleeding from his injuries.
Examination of Jumbo\'s limb bones showed overgrown tendon attachment areas consistent with a long-term history of being overloaded at his work.
Jumbo was still growing at the time of his death, as is normal for African male elephants of his age, and might eventually have attained the size claimed by Barnum.