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003 - Jumbo the Elephant
Curio: History, Museums, and the Things We Put in Them05/11/18 • 13 min
Jaybee's away this week so it's 100% Shan time. Learn about Jumbo the Elephant, P.T. Barnum, and his involvement in one of the greatest pissfights in museum history.
Resources:
McLellan, Andrew. (2012). P.T. Barnum, Jumbo the Elephant, and the Barnum Museum of Natural History at Tuft's University. Journal of the History of Collections 24(1).
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/nov/11/jumbo-the-elephant-the-afterlife
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