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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.
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| "Jumbo reaching for candy" |
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| "Jumbo objects to being put in irons" |
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| "Jumbo with his new friends, Madison Square Garden, NY" |
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| "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 | Cambridge University Press, 2003 |
| ISBN | 0521533120, 9780521533126 |
| Length | 400 pages, p. 174 |
KERR'S Thread was manufactured by the American Thread Company, according to the Official Gazette of the U.S. Patent Office.
| Title | Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, Volume 128 |
| Contributor | United States. Patent Office |
| Publisher | The Office, 1907, p.2074 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | Jun 10, 2011 |
For more on the American Thread Company, Walter Grutchfield's site is recommended. The New York headquarters of the company is now famous as a landmark in its own right. The building has its own Wikipedia page.
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| Google Street View of 260 West Broadway as of Oct. 2014 |
For more on the J&P Coats Company, see page 174 of the Earl J. Arnold Advertising Card Collection.
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