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Title
Duke, a Bengal tiger at the California Zoological Gardens, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued
September 19, 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
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, "Tiger Does Man Mountain Act With Lioness in Cage," Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep 1936: 10.
At the California Zoological Gardens Duke, a 600-pound Bengal tiger, attacked June, an adult mountain lion, dislocating her vertebra and elbow. The tiger tore through the wire netting between the two cages that separated them. June is reported as healing but very temperamental from the incident. Duke was successfully sedated.
Duke snarls from behind the bars of his cage. A hand belonging to a person out of frame points at his cage.
Handwritten on negative: Duke 9/19/36
Text from negative sleeve: 6647 - Duke (a Tiger) W.J. Richards (Calif. Zoological Society) June (a Puma) (Calif. Zoological Gardens) Zoo Animals Fite 9/19/36 [stamped:] Sep 24 1936
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_14564
ark:/21198/zz002j85r3
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Animal attacks--California--Los Angeles
Cages--California--Los Angeles
Tigers--California
California Zoological Gardens
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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