Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 USC Libraries Special Collections University of Southern California specol@usc.edu
Description
2 images. Home From India With Baby Elephant and Leopard, 01 November 1951. Joe Mazucca, 14 Frank Ferrin, Producer of Columbia Broadcasting System Series Starring Joe Elephant "Tusker", smallest baby elephant ever imported from India. Supplementary material reads: "Joey Mazucca, 14-year-old Montebello boys, assists in unloading of his two month old elephant, the youngest and smallest ever exported from India. Joey received the elephant from the Maharajah of Mysore after meeting him while shooting CBS-TV pictures near the Indian ruler's palace. Joey will keep him at his home, 3124 Via San Dellaro, Montebello. His new pet, called Tusker, weighs 220 pounds". Supplementary material reads: "Joey Mazucca, 14-year-old Montebello boy, who won the friendship of the wealthy Maharajah of Mysore and came home with the Indian ruler's baby elephant, is shown with his new pet, Tusker, and a leopard cub. Frank Ferrin, producer of the CBS series starring Joey, is shown with the Joey".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : negatives, b&w 10 x 13 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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