The Earl J. Arnold Advertising Card Collection 1885

updated 28 September 2021 <PREVIOUS PAGE       ~  index  ~        NEXT PAGE> The elephant depicted here is "Jumbo," and the advertising sequence is a play on actual events that happened when Jumbo was purchased (along with the Bailey Circus operation) by P.T. Barnum, forming the famed Barnum & Bailey Circus.  For more on the story of Jumbo, see the next page of this blog . "Jumbo reaching for candy" "Jumbo objects to being put in irons" "Jumbo with his new friends, Madison Square Garden, NY" "Prospective fun for the children" The American Electric Company installed electric lights in the F.H. Allis & Co. building in January of 1882 according to this Google Books resource : Title Innovation as a Social Process: Elihu Thomson and the Rise of General Electric Studies in Economic History and Policy: USA in the Twentieth Century Author W. Bernard Carlson Edition revised Publisher Camb...