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Title: Narrow escape for Beatty
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1950
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: Clyde Beatty is shown doing his act with lions. Crowds screamed at the opening performance when one of the lions shattered a leg of the chair Beatty uses as protection. Photo dated: April 6, 1950.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00054730
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 6620
CARL0000059626
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/21420
Subject: Beatty, Clyde,--1903-1965
Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. Circus
Animal trainers
Circuses & shows
Circus animals
Circus owners
Circus performers
Lions
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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