Great India Elephant Caravan in United States


Great India Elephant Caravan
Local name Natural Curiosities, National Caravan, National Menagerie
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Owner 1826-1839: Zebedee Macomber
Founded1826
Closed down1831
Country United States
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Great India Elephant Caravan, United States , was founded in 1826. Great India Elephant Caravan closed down in 1831.


Comments / picturesOwner was Zebedee Macomber, who later changed name to Macomber and Co.


This title headed the advertisements of a caravan in 1828 and 1830. In 1826, it was “Natural Curiosities,” and in 1827, “Great India Elephant Caravan,” and in 1829, “National Caravan.” These various names indicate clearly how the titles were generic and not meant to be identification. With so few such exhibitions on tour, it made little sense to distinguish between them.

This one was originally based on a shipment of animals from London that were debarked from the ship Xenophon in August 1826. In addition to tigers, leopards and a llama there was a Bactrian camel aboard, the first one to arrive here. It was said to be seven Feet in height.

Later evidence indicates that this Group was owned by Zebedee Macomber. He reformed it in 1827, when it was called the “Great India Elephant Caravan.” A female elephant, later named Flora, was the center piece of the show. She was twenty-four years old and nine Feet high and newly imported.

In 1828, a tiger, a pair of kangaroos, a pair of panthers, a jaguar and a dromedary were added. However, the list for 1829 was not as large, being: female elephant, kangaroo, coatimundi, Bactrian camel, leopard, monkeys, Captain Jack, tiger, llama, baboons.

A lion and a black wolf were additions in 1830. For 1831, the caravan became the property of June & Titus and we follow it under June, Titus, Angevine and Co. The elephant Flora went to the Howe & Birchard menagerie
Stuart Thayer\'s American Circus Anthology Part Two: General History

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Koehl, Dan (2024). Great India Elephant Caravan, Elephant Encyclopedia. Available online at https://www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=2329. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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