Photograph of an elephant keddah, or enclosure, in Mysore, India in the early 20th century.

Photograph of men riding elephants in a race in a field while spectators watch in the background in the early 20th century.

Photograph of an elephant skeleton on display in a museum in the early/mid 20th century.

Photograph of an Athmallik elephant in full dress being ridden by a man in a field in the early 20th century. Athmallik is another tributary state in Orissa, India.

Photograph of some men walking and some men riding an elephant as they cross the hill from Mayurbhanj to the next state, Keonjhar in India in the early 20th century.

Photograph of two hunters sitting on a dead elephant with a third man standing behind it on the plains in Africa in the early 20th century.

Photograph of a large statue of an elephant with trappings and man sitting beneath one of its front legs in Kanarak, India in the early 20th century.

Photograph of a man riding an elephant as it works to clear tree branches in a forest in Ceylon in the early 20th century.

Photograph of men riding two elephants as the move timber in Maulmain, [Burma] in the early 20th century.

Photograph of a group of elephants in a row being fed by soldiers in camp in the early 20th century.