“THE GREAT STREET PAGEANT with its Royal Golden Chariots, Made in London, Forty Feet High, Surmounted with Revolving Tableaux of Golden Elephants, Lions, and Tigers, Mingling with a gorgeously caparisoned [sic] retinue of living Elephants, Camels, Gnoos, and Zebras.”

—advertisement from 1871, the first year of P.T. Barnum’s Circus, from Barnum’s Struggles and Triumphs, 1877 edition. As quoted in The American Circus: An Illustrated History by John Culhane, 1990.