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. Similar photograph appears with the article, "Mother Helps Junior Learn About Circus," Los Angeles Times, 04 Apr 1936: A5. Barnes' circus holds sixty steel railroad cars, 700 people and 500 animals of which there are 26 lions and tigers, and lots of activity. The two women stand beside each other, their hair appearing to be white in color, wrapped in leopard-patterned cloaks. Handwritten on negative: L2R Thelma Patent Doris Patent 4/3/36 Text from negative sleeve: 4783 - George Rearick Chita Christiani Marian Darling Peter Duart Genevieve Canestrelli Diane White Thelma Patent Doris Patent Gabriel Castella June Sergie Marguerite Garner Barnes Circus here 4/3/36 [stamped:] Apr 14 1936
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_14000 ark:/21198/zz002j7h9r
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Circuses & shows--California--Los Angeles Circus performers Sisters--American--California--Los Angeles Patent, Doris, b. 1914 or 15 Al G. Barnes Wild Animal Circus Patent, Thelma, b. 1912 or 13
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