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Title
A lioness sitting on a leafless tree branch at Gay's Lion Farm, ca.1936
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1936
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of a lioness sitting on a leafless tree branch at Gay's Lion Farm, ca.1936. Perched on the end of a long wooden extension, the lion stares toward the right, while a two-story wire cage wall surrounds the enclosure. Outside this, an assortment of trees and foliage can be seen. The heads of two lions are visible in the extreme right foreground.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
13 x 10 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m23930 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-47956
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m23930
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-47956.jpg
Subject
Lions
Los Angeles County--El Monte--Gay's Lion Farm
Parks
Time Period
circa 1936
Place
California
El Monte
Los Angeles
USA
Source
47956 [Accession number]
CHS-47956 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]

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