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Title
Exterior view of Gay's Lion Farm on December 1, 1931
Date Created and/or Issued
1931-12-01
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
Exterior view of Gay's Lion Farm, December 1, 1931. A two-story stucco buildng can be seen at left. A large sign reads "Internationally Famous Gay's Lion Farm", while others advertise the nearly two hundred African lions and the farm's operating hours. A row of early-model automobiles can be seen parked in front of the building, while a large staute of a lion can be seen at right. A tall pepper tree is visible in the foreground at right.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : transparency, photonegative, b&w
13 x 17 cm.
negatives (photographic)
transparencies
photographs
Identifier
chs-m3167 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-35297
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m3167
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-35297.jpg
Subject
Los Angeles County--El Monte--Gay's Lion Farm
Streets
Parks
Time Period
1931-12-01
Place
California
El Monte
Los Angeles
USA
Source
35297 [Accession number]
CHS-35297 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
chs-m825

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