Image / Trainer washing elephant at an Eagle Rock car wash

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Title: Trainer washing elephant at an Eagle Rock car wash
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Sergieff, Mike
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1988
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Photograph caption dated December 30, 1988 reads, "A big squirt: one of three elephants soaped and scrubbed for Rose Parade by kids who beat cancer get rinse from handler Gary Johnson at Eagle Rock car wash. Pachyderms will pull float with child patients from the Ronald McDonald House."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;36 x 29 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00084421
Herald Examiner Collection
HH_b026_f1_i23
CARL0002888761
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/26078
Subject: Elephants--California--Los Angeles
Elephant trainers--United States
Car washes--California--Los Angeles
Eagle Rock (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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