Burlesque bull fight in the Southern Pacific Stockyards, Los Angeles, 1922-1925

Title: Burlesque bull fight in the Southern Pacific Stockyards, Los Angeles, 1922-1925
Date Created: [between 1922-1925]
Date: 1922/1925
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: A few Los Angeles Times articles published between 1922-1924 report about "Charlotada" bullfights in Spain, which were burlesque bullfights featuring a Charlie Chaplin character as a toreador. These performances were part of an effort to have bullfights banned.
Chaplinesque character on the ground with a small bull during a burlesque bull fight in the Southern Pacific Stockyards. Spectators watch from an elevated bench behind the stockyard fence.
Caption: Handwritten on negative: Bull fight. S.P. Stockyards
Text from negative sleeve: Bull fight. S.P. Stockyards

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Bullfighting--California--Los Angeles
Stockyards--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_1194
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002dbm9w
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Rights statement: copyrighted
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Rights Country: US
Funding Note: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .