Cleaning the Elephants Frame Color:Unframed Douglas Fairbanks lifts Charlie Chaplin

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Cleaning the Elephants Frame Color:Unframed Douglas Fairbanks lifts Charlie ChaplinThe elephant exhibit gets cleaned by vacuums and feather dusters at the American Museum of Natural History on Feb. 28, 1951. It's part of spring cleaning at the 25 acre museum, a process requiring 135 workers and a month of scrubbing elephants, dinosaurs, totem poles, teepees and 94,000 square feet of glass. The Times wrote on March 1, 1951, "The 135 man corps of the custodian's department of the American Museum of Natural History has come to a time