Duke, a Bengal tiger at the California Zoological Gardens, Los Angeles, 1936

Item Overview

Title

Duke, a Bengal tiger at the California Zoological Gardens, Los Angeles, 1936

Date Created

September 19, 1936

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Photograph appears with the article, "Tiger Does Man Mountain Act With Lioness in Cage," Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep 1936: 10.
Behind the bars of a cage Duke snarls.
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.

Caption

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
Text from newspaper caption: Jungle rage boiled up in Duke, Bengal tiger at the California Zoological Gardens, and he ripped through wire netting to attack a puma.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Subjects

Animal attacks--California--Los Angeles
Cages--California--Los Angeles
Tigers--California

Names

California Zoological Gardens

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image