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Title
Man feeding a lion cub with a bottle at Gay's Lion Farm, ca.1931
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1931
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of a man feeding a lion cub with a bottle at Gay's Lion Farm, ca.1931. A smiling man with a receding hairline can be seen crouching beside a lion cub at center while feeding it with a bottle. The cub stands on its hind legs and sucks from the nozzle. Beneath them sits a sea of grass, while several palm trees are visible in the background.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
13 x 10 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m23932 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-47957
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m23932
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-47957.jpg
Subject
Lions
Los Angeles County--El Monte--Gay's Lion Farm
Parks
Time Period
circa 1931
Place
California
El Monte
Los Angeles
USA
Source
47957 [Accession number]
CHS-47957 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]

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