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Title
A group of trained lions standing on elevated platforms as instructed by a trainer at Gay's Lion Farm, ca.1936
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1936
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 group of trained lions standing on elevated platforms as instructed by a trainer at Gay's Lion Farm, ca.1936. Several male lions stand on platforms of different levels, while a trainer clad in a long-sleeved shirt and tie instructs them with the use of a stick. The scene takes place within a large performance cage.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
13 x 10 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m23549 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-47939
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m23549
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-47939.jpg
Subject
Lions
Los Angeles County--El Monte--Gay's Lion Farm
Parks
Time Period
circa 1936
Place
California
El Monte
Los Angeles
USA
Source
47939 [Accession number]
CHS-47939 [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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