Authentic / Original 1880's Centaur Liniment:   "Man and Beast" - Jumbo's Baby Bridgeport the Elephant.   

P.T. Barnum's CIRCUS Elephant "Jumbo Feeds Baby Castoria."!  
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    Pharmacy Drugstore imprint:   Adelbert K. Hawley, Pharmacist, Jefferson, Ohio

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"Jumbo Feeds Baby Castoria." (poem / advertising rhyme)

P.T. Barnum's Biggest Animal Act ... as Patent Medicine Peddler!



"man and beast" farm animal cure / veterinary medicine / horse remedy / "equestrians and teamsters" etc.

-- Authentic original trade card with a PT Barnum testimonial on the back!  -  circa 1880's.

HISTORICAL NOTE:  - - Jumbo's Baby Bridgeport the Elephant

On display at the Barnum Museum can be seen the mounted hide of the famous baby elephant "Bridgeport."

On February 2,1882 at the winter quarters of the Barnum, Bailey, and Hutchison Circus in Bridgeport, the elephant Queen -- one of of Barnum's 22 elephants -- had only the second recorded elephant birth in America. It was a famous event -- over 60 scientists from around the world came to witness it. P.T Barnum arrived by sleigh 20 minutes after the birth to see for himself the baby elephant reportly no bigger then a Newfoundland dog. Bridgeport died April 12,1886, at the very spot he was born. Like Jumbo, Barnum had Bridgeport's hide mounted, where it can be viewed today at the museum.

- - "It was not Barnum but his partner, James Bailey, who proposed making an offer to the Londoners to bring the big animal to America. As was his habit, however, Barnum soon made the cause his own. By 1882 Bartlett was fed up with Scott, Jumbo's unruly trainer, who often used his hold over the elephant as blackmail against his employers. When the offer came from overseas to purchase the beast, Bartlett accepted - much to the chagrin of the zoo's constituency, which made its objections heard loud and clear.

After weeks of futile and anxiously reported efforts to get Jumbo into an enormous packing crate - the elephant clearly knew he was being sent away - Barnum and his colleagues finally welcomed their new attraction at New York's Castle Garden Pier. The crowd along the procession route to the circus's home at Madison Square Garden was, according to the author, the largest gathering ever seen in Manhattan." 

From: Jumbo: The Greatest Elephant in the World   -- By Paul Chambers 



Reverse:     --  Adelbert K. Hawley, Pharmacist, Jefferson, OH  / Cure Advertising   -- as shown Above.   

  "... instantaneous cure of pains ... man and beast ...."  
Condition:    Displays with evidence of aging, flaws and wear, as seen in   HUGE   scans. 

Please ... SEE  the above   HUGE   SCANS to note any and all FLAWS! 

Size:   Approx. 4 x 3 inches --  as indicated by ruler in scans.

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