This is Day’s Menagerie, at the St Giles Fair in Oxford, England, in 1895. These travelling shows featuring exotic animals were very popular with the British public in the mid- to late 1800s. It is easy to see why acclimatisation societies appeared in Britain and British colonies at this time.
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