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    Isaac A. Van Amburgh (1808–1865) was an American animal trainer who developed the first trained wild animal act in modern times. By introducing jungle...
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    Martin and American Isaac Van Amburgh, who both toured widely and whose techniques were copied by a number of followers. Van Amburgh performed before Queen...
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    subject matter with rarity value, figures of the Victorian lion-tamer Isaac Van Amburgh are among the most desirable of all Staffordshire portrait figures...
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  • Borghese, Rome (url) Edwin Henry Landseer (1802–1873), 6 paintings : Isaac van Amburgh and his Animals, Royal Collection, Windsor (url) Fitz Hugh Lane (1804–1865)...
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    himself, including the first lion bred in captivity in Britain. Isaac A. Van Amburgh (1811–1865), American animal trainer who developed the first trained...
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    Dan Rice 1963 Adam Forepaugh 1963 May Wirth 1963 Victor Pépin 1964 Isaac Van Amburgh 1964 Philip Astley 1965 Clyde Beatty 1966 Con Colleano 1969 Mabel...
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    1865) was a famous 19th century Asiatic elephant that was part of Isaac A. Van Amburgh's menagerie. Hannibal was brought to the United States as early as...
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    seven members of the Board as now constituted are A. I. Ritchie, W. E. Van Amburgh, H. C. Rockwell, J. D. Wright, I. F. Hoskins, A. N. Pierson and J. F...
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  • best known for the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (died 1896) July 11 – Isaac A. Van Amburgh, animal trainer (died 1865) December 19 – Aaron Shaw, U.S. Representative...
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  • had elected only three men to office—Rutherford, Secretary-Treasurer Van Amburgh and Vice-President Andrew N. Pierson—the remaining four board members...
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