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Barnes Trilby — Mills Brothers Circus | mahoot

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Barnes Trilby

Mills Brothers Circus · United States

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Record completeness

8 of 15 key fields populated

53%

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Life history

Born: 1902
Death reason: unknown: in Davenport, Iowa
Age (est.): ~50 years
Origin: Wild-caught
Arrived: 1949-00-00

At this facility

Mills Brothers Circus

United States · Camp

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Transfer history

1949-00-00
Mills Brothers Circus
from Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
1938-00-00
Al G Barnes-Sells Floto Circus
from Al G Barnes-Sells Floto Circus
1937-00-00
Al G. Barnes Circus
from Al G. Barnes Circus
1933-00-00
Sells-Floto Circus
from Sells-Floto Circus
1906-00-00
Otto Floto Dog and Pony Show
from Otto Floto Dog and Pony Show
1905-00-00
Luna Park
from Luna Park
1904-00-00
Thompson & Dundee
from Thompson & Dundee
1904-00-00
Firma Carl Hagenbeck
from Firma Carl Hagenbeck

Sources

The Ringling Elephants 1888-1967, Bandwagon
Bob Cline, Cheraw, South Carolina, United States. Autor of the book Americas elephants
http://bucklesw.blogspot.com/2009/11/trilby-tessie.html
Buckles Woodcock
https://classic.circushistory.org/Bandwagon/bw-1964Mar.htm
http://bucklesw.blogspot.com/2008/12/chris-zeitz-2.html

Original record on elephant.se Back to database

Data from elephant.se (Dan A. J. Koehl), CC BY 4.0. Reformatted for search.