1916
Citation: 102.554.1-3 (Full image size: 103Kb)
A collection of pictures taken by Ray C. Cunningham when he was a student at South Dakota State College in 1916. A circus elephant had gone on a rampage and was subsequently killed. Ray and eleven of his fellow-students were called upon to skin, dismember, and obtain the skeleton of that elephant. Ray Cunningham led the Y.M.C.A. program at Iowa State College, beginning in 1933 and ending with his retirement in 1953, at the age of sixty.
Citation: 102.554.4 (Full image size: 88Kb)
In 1916, Ray Cunningham and eleven of his fellow-students at South Dakota State College brought down a rogue circus elephant. This is one of a series of photographs illustrating the aftermath of the hunt. (For all the photographs, see ID 102.554.1-3) Ray Cunningham was the head of the Y.M.C.A. program at Iowa State College from 1933 to 1953. He retired at the age of sixty and remained very active in the Ames community.
Citation: 102.554.5 (Full image size: 118Kb)
In 1916, Ray C.Cunningham and other students from Iowa State College helped bring down this "rogue elephant," escaped from a travelling circus in South Dakota.
CUNNINGHAM, RAY C.
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