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Title: Tiger trainer Mabel Stark
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Creator: Paulson, Larry
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1957
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Mabel Stark, born Mary Haynie, was a successful animal trainer, with a career working with tigers and other wildcats spanning over fifty years. One of only a handful of women trainers to work with big cats, she was a featured act in many shows and circuses including Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus and later as a trainer at Jungleland in Thousand Oaks.
Photograph dated May 9, 1957 shows animal trainer, Mabel Stark, posing with one of her tigers.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00116505
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d018_f17_i27
CARL0005327619
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/49821
Subject: Stark, Mabel
Animal trainers--United States
Women--California--Los Angeles
Tigers
Portrait photographs
Valley Times Collection photographs

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