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Title: Young boy named Peter Duart feeds Agatha the elephant, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: April 14, 1936
1936-04-14
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
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.
Photograph appears with the article, "Mother Helps Junior Learn About Circus," Los Angeles Times, 04 Apr 1936: A5.
Onlookers watch as Peter feeds a hay-covered Agatha.
Barnes' circus holds sixty steel railroad cars, 700 people and 500 animals of which there are 26 lions and tigers, and lots of activity.
Text from newspaper caption: Agatha is really happier than she looks. Junior saw to that by providing peanuts in great quantities to the mammoths at the opening of circus days at Washington Boulevard and Hill street yesterday. Little Peter Duart is doing the honors here.
Handwritten on negative: Peter Duart 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_14004
ark:/21198/zz002j7hft
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Circuses & shows--California--Los Angeles
Children--California--Los Angeles
Show tents--California--Los Angeles
Elephants--California
Al G. Barnes Wild Animal Circus
Duart, Peter
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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