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President Herbert Hoover standing on the back of a railroad car with first Lady Lou Henry Roosevelt holding a lion cub, El Monte, 1932

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Title: President Herbert Hoover standing on the back of a railroad car with first Lady Lou Henry Roosevelt holding a lion cub, El Monte, 1932
Date Created and/or Issued: [November 1932]
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.
Photograph of President Herbert Hoover and his wife Lou Henry Hoover a the platform on the back of a train car in El Monte. Mrs. Hoover holds a lion cub that someone offered to her as a pet. She gave it back before departing.
Text from newspaper caption for a similar photo taken on the same occasion : "First Lady Turns Down Lion Cub As a Pet. A cub lion was presented to Mrs. Herbert Hoover, wife of the president, when they boarded a train at El Monte, Calif., after a visit in southern California. Mrs. Hoover held the lion until time for the train to start on the trip back home to Washington, then she handed the pet back to its original owner. No lion for the White House," Milwaukee Sentinel, 16 Nov. 1932: 18.
Text from negative sleeve: Hoover, Herbert
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_10491
ark:/21198/zz002hbg8p
Subject: Presidents' spouses--United States
Lions--California
Presidents--United States
Hoover, Lou Henry, 1874-1944
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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