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Title: Lion attack at Gay's Lion Farm
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Bentley, Frank
Date Created and/or Issued: 1928
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: The verso of the photo states: This picture taken on the exact scene of the lion's attack on the trainer, shows how the near-tragedy occurred. Answering the first alarm that the lions were loose, Rounan, manager of the farm, ran from the office with gun in hand. As he looked toward the left after "Shorttail," "Nigger" stealthily came from behind the row of canes at right, snarled and pounced on him. Another trainer reenacts Rounan's role. Photo dated: Sep. 26, 1928.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00059466
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1980.
CARL0000063225
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/22751
Subject: Gay's Lion Farm (El Monte, Calif.)
Lions
Zoos--California--El Monte
Lion attacks
El Monte (Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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