Teddy
Posted By thecircusblog on March 25, 2009
Henry Clay was the trainer of Teddy. I got this photo from a friend of mine and it also came with an interesting story. This photo was taken in the 1930’s at William Hall’s compound in Lancaster, Mo. The purpose of the compound was to retrain elephants that had a bad attitude with people or other elephants. The elephants came from everywhere….circuses, zoos and privately owned ones. Many were actually given to the compound. They would be rehabilitated and then returned to their owners or sold. Of course there was a price for this service.
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