Jumbo the large African elephant sold by London Zoo in 1882 to the American showman Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810-1891) for his circus which became known as the 'Greatest Show on Earth'. Jumbo in his crate, his keeper on platform to keep him calm, hoisted from a barge onto the Assyrian Monarch in Millwall Docks, London. From The Illustrated London News (London, 1 April 1882). Wood engraving.