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Cabinet Photo of Gypsy and Baby Barney, Circus Elephants. Chicago: Thompson, ca. 1890s. Photograph of the elephants with several men outside a tent. Studio mount, gilt lettered. Identification printed in the negative. 4 ¼ x 6 ½”. Gypsy was owned by the W.H. Harris Nickel-Plate Shows, in Chicago, who purchased her from W.W. Cole’s Circus. She was known as a “man-killer” elephant. By 1885, the Chicago Inter-Ocean reported, she had killed six of her trainers, though her trainer at the time added that “she will not hurt women or children, or permit a horse or dog to be beaten in her presence.” Gypsy was killed in 1902 after trampling to death yet another trainer.