Image / Three circus elephants during training, Los Angeles, 1936

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Title: Three circus elephants during training, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: 1936
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.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
One elephant kneels on all four legs as two elephants place their fore legs in its back, during a training session. The hand and long wooden pole of the trainer is visible on the left.
Text from negative sleeve: 3562 Elephants / Barnes Circus. [stamped:] Feb 7 1936
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_12635
ark:/21198/zz002hmpcq
Subject: Circus animals--California--Los Angeles
Elephants
Al G. Barnes Wild Animal Circus
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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