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. Supervisor Quinn cradles the twenty-pound cub in his arms while the cat chews on the thumb of Quinn's right hand. Photograph appears with the article, "Lion Visits Officialdom," Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar 1936: 13. Peanuts the lion cub visited the Board of Supervisors at the Hall of Records and made a special radio appearance yesterday - he is owned by Chief of Police Cecil Truchel of Culver City and is the official mascot of the California Junior Detective Association. Text from negative sleeve: 4470 - Sup.ervisor John R Quinn [stamped:] Mar 25 1936 Handwritten on negative: Sup. John Quinn Text from newspaper caption: When Supervisor Quinn yesterday moved that the board adjourn for lunch, Peanuts, 2 1/2-month-old lion, roared his approval. Quinn took Peanuts to lunch, a couple of pounds of steak, not to speak of a nibble off the Supervisor's thumb.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_13667 ark:/21198/zz002hnx0v
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Lions--California Mascots Quinn, John R., 1889-1979
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