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Title
Two tigers sharing a room with another pair of large cats, at Gay's Lion Farm, ca.1936
Date Created and/or Issued
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 two tigers sharing a room with another pair of large cats, at Gay's Lion Farm, ca.1936. Two tigers lie next to each other behind a wooden extension at left, while two other spotted cats sit at the opposite side of the cage. Between them, a spherical object sits, while the metal and wooden panels of a wall appears behind the animals. A chain-link wall forms the side of the enclosure at right.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
13 x 10 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m23900 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-47949
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m23900
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-47949.jpg
Subject
Los Angeles County--El Monte--Gay's Lion Farm
Tigers
Parks
Time Period
1936
Place
California
El Monte
Los Angeles
USA
Source
47949 [Accession number]
CHS-47949 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
chs-m825

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