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This card shows a tableau with Indra the Elephant as the main attraction. Tableaus containing exotic animals were popular around 1908, the year of the Earl’s Court Exhibition, London.

 

 

 

 

 

A souvenir postcard from one of Frank Bostock’s Jungle appearances. Artist unknown to date.

A card, also from Frank Bostock’s Jungle tours. It can be dated to 1908.

 

 

 

 

The rear view of the above card, showing Bostock’s enterprising use of associated advertising.

Artefacts: Bostock’s Jungle

During the early part of the twentieth century, Frank Bostock returned to England from New York and toured his Bostock’s Jungle.  It visited several large cities and  Earl’s Court, another of those large exhibition sites in London. It had also operated for 7 months in Sheffield, South Yorkshire during 1910.

Here is one of the many postcards produced to advertise the shows: