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Title: Entrance to Zoo Park
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Creator: Burt, Burton O
Date Created and/or Issued: 1939
Publication Information: Federal Writers' Project
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: The animal park began as the Selig Zoo, when it was overseen by Willaim Selig, a motion picture pioneer. It later became known as the Luna Park Zoo. In the 1930s it became the California Zoological Gardens, only to close in the same decade due to a flood.
Entrance to Zoo Park, operated by the California Zoological Society, at Mission Road and Selig Place in Lincoln Heights. July 17, 1939.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00010701
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 2205
CARL0000012515
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/1614
Subject: California Zoological Gardens (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Zoos--California--Lincoln Heights (Los Angeles)
Lost architecture--California--Lincoln Heights (Los Angeles)
Parks--California--Lincoln Heights (Los Angeles)
Lincoln Heights (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs

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