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Topsy (c. 1875 – January 4, 1903) was a female Asian elephant who was electrocuted at Coney Island, New York, in January 1903.Born in Southeast Asia around 1875, Topsy was secretly brought into the United States soon thereafter and added to the herd of performing elephants at the Forepaugh Circus, who fraudulently advertised her as the first elephant born in the United States.
This film documents the publicly announced killing of Topsy the elephant at the unfinished Luna Park on Coney Island, New York City on January 4, 1903. The elephant had recently been acquired from Forepaugh Circus, where she had a reputation as a "bad" elephant, having killed a drunken spectator the previous year who burnt the tip of her trunk with a lit cigar.
English: A photograph from a January 11, 1903 St. Louis Republic article about the the January 4, 1903 electrocution of Topsy the elephant in an event to raise publicity about the opening of the new Coney Island amusement park "Luna Park" (at this point still under construction). The newspaper account says that Topsy refused to cross the bridge ...
Between about 1880 and World War II, Coney Island was the largest amusement area in the United States, attracting several million visitors annually. [2] Sea Lion Park opened in 1895 [3] and was Coney Island's first amusement area to charge entry fees; [4] [5] this, in turn, spurred the construction of George C. Tilyou's Steeplechase Park in 1897, the neighborhood's first major amusement park.
"Topsy the Elephant Was a Victim of Her Captors, Not Thomas Edison". Smithsonian Magazine. ALT1: ... that during the construction of Coney Island's Luna Park, its owners electrocuted an elephant that helped them demolish the site? Source: Eschner, Kat (January 4, 2017). "Topsy the Elephant Was a Victim of Her Captors, Not Thomas Edison".
The land occupying Coney Island was an apple orchard when James Parker purchased it in 1867. He added a carousel and other amenities and transformed the land into a recreational facility.
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