Image / Princess Kaya of Japan feeding a baby leopard, California, 1934

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Title: Princess Kaya of Japan feeding a baby leopard, California, 1934
Date Created and/or Issued: August 1934
1934-08
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Prince and Princess Kaya undertook a seven-month world tour in 1934, visiting the United States, Great Britain, France, and Germany. The tour received extensive press coverage at the time.
Next to a palm tree, Princess Kaya of Japan holds a bouquet and feeds a bottle to a baby leopard held in a towel by its keeper. A crowd watches from behind a wooden railing.
Text from negative sleeve: Japan, Princekaya
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_5219
ark:/21198/zz002cv6kj
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Youth
People
Princesses--Japan
International
Kaya, Toshiko
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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