Image / Burlesque bull fight in the Southern Pacific Stockyards, Los Angeles, 1922-1925

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Title: Burlesque bull fight in the Southern Pacific Stockyards, Los Angeles, 1922-1925
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1922-1925]
1922/1925
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
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
A few Los Angeles Times articles published between 1922-1924 report about "Charlotada" bullfights in Spain, which were burlesque bullfights featuring a Charlie Chaplin character as a toreador. These performances were part of an effort to have bullfights banned.
Chaplinesque character on the ground with a small bull during a burlesque bull fight in the Southern Pacific Stockyards. Spectators watch from an elevated bench behind the stockyard fence.
Handwritten on negative: Bull fight. S.P. Stockyards
Text from negative sleeve: Bull fight. S.P. Stockyards
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_1194
ark:/21198/zz002dbm9w
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Bullfighting--California--Los Angeles
Stockyards--California--Los Angeles
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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