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Title
Four-year-old Jackie Sullivan pets a sheep, Vernon, 1938
Contributor
Wallace, Gordon Charles, 1909-1992
Date Created and/or Issued
November 1938
1938-11
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.
Jackie puts one of his arms around the sheep's neck. Other sheep can be seen beside them their faces turned away from the camera.
10,000 people attended the Great Western Livestock Show watching rodeos, calf roping, cow milking, and seeing up-close some prizewinning animals.
Photograph appears with the article, "Livestock Show Opening Draws 10,000 Spectators," Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov 1938: 3.
Text from newspaper caption: Judging the coat of this Hampshire lamb is Jackie Sullivan, 4, at opening of Great Western Livestock Show.
Text from negative sleeve: 15010 - Stock Show Jackie Sullivan - 4 Hampshire Lamp from Rancho Los Angeles L. A. TIMES PHOTO BY GORDON WALLACE 11/20/38 [stamped:] Dec 1938
Handwritten on negative: Jackie Sullivan
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_11740
ark:/21198/zz002h8k1m
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Children--California--Vernon
Sheep--California
Hay--California--Vernon
Livestock shows--California--Vernon
Los Angeles Union Stock Yard (Calif.)
Sullivan, Jackie, b. 1934 or 35
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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