Making Money In The Circus In The Late 18O0's

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P T Barnum, of Barnum and Bailey’s Circus. was after the fabled white elephant. Legend had it that occasionally they had been seen. A rare animal like that meant millions to circus owners, even in the 18oos. Of course, they did not exist, and P.T. eventually made his own discovery of a white elephant. He used a whitewash brush on a large elephant, featuring it as a white elephant from the palace of Siam…