McClellan, Andrew
Person
Biography
LCNAF
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Andrew McClellan Collection of Jumbo Memorabilia
Collection
Call Number: MS250
Overview
This collection contains Jumbo memorabilia collected by Tufts University Art History Professor Andrew McClellan for a 2014 exhibition at the Tufts University Gallery on Tufts's mascot, Jumbo the Elephant.
Dates:
circa 1860 -- 2014
Found in:
Tufts Archival Research Center
P. T. Barnum, Jumbo the Elephant, and the Barnum Museum of Natural History at Tufts University
Digital Image
Dates:
2012
Found in:
Tufts Archival Research Center
P. T. Barnum, Jumbo the Elephant, and the Barnum Museum of Natural History at Tufts University, 2012
Item
Call Number: PB.002.00022
Overview
In 1883, the great showman P. T. Barnum agreed to build an eponymous museum of natural history on the campus of Tufts University, which he had served as a founding trustee. After a long career managing dime museums and a travelling circus, Barnum hoped to secure a positive legacy through the creation of an unambiguously serious institution. In addition to building and collections funds, Barnum supplied the Tufts museum – as well as the Smithsonian and American Museum of Natural History in...
Dates:
2012
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- Archival Record 1
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- Collection 1
- Subject
- Barnum Museum of Natural History 2
- Natural history museum trustees 2
- Barnum, P.T. 1
- Jumbo (Elephant) 1
- Mascots 1
