Gallery 2 - Elephant Photographs
Photo 01: Raising The Big Top

Sarasota, Florida
November 9, 1996

Three Asian females in harness walk along a road to their job of raising the Big Top at Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. circus performing at the Sarasota County Fairgrounds on Ringling Blvd.		 Circus elephants in harness.
Under the tent: they work as a team of three. Each is harnessed to the base of a tent pole which has been attached to the big top. On command, the team moves forward in unison and stop when the pole is upright. They continue this task around the perimeter until all the poles are in place. Here you can see one of the three execute the command to pull and tent pole rises into place.


Photos by Wayne Hepburn		 Raising the Big Top.


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