History: The Birth of "America" in 1882

Robert H.I. Dale

History: The Birth of "America" in 1882

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This article concerns a New York Times story about the birth of the female Asian elephant calf, named America, at the winter headquarters of the "Greatest Show on Earth" in Bridgeport, Connecticut on February 2, 1882. Phineas T. Barnum, one of the owners of the show, and one prone to self-aggrandizing bluster, claimed that America was the second elephant ever born in captivity. America was born only to months before the arrival in New York of the most famous circus elephant of all time, Jumbo, on Easter Sunday, 1882, and only two years before the origin of a small wagon circus run by the five Ringling (originally, Rüngeling) brothers from Baraboo Wisconsin.

Original language	American English
Journal	Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
Volume	19
Issue number	1
State	Published - Jan 1 2008

Keywords

America
Elephas maximas
Phineas Barnum
Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus
circus history
elephant calf
elephants

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American Popular Culture
Animal Sciences
Psychology
United States History
Zoology

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History: The Birth of "America" in 1882

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