Lion Cub and zookeepers at the California Zoological Gardens, Los Angeles, 1935
Item Overview
- Title
- Lion Cub and zookeepers at the California Zoological Gardens, Los Angeles, 1935
- Date Created
- July 14, 1935
- Date
- 1935-07-14
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
- In 1912 William Selig purchased the site tha is now Lincoln Park in Los Angeles, at Mission Road and Selig Place, as additional film studio acreage for the housing of wild animals used in his films. The studio was insolvent by 1918 and the zoo was auctioned off in 1923. Over time, it had various names, including Luna Park Zoo, the L.A. Wild Aimal Farms, the California Zoological Gardens, and Zoopark.
- Caption
- Text from negative sleeve: 1345—Calif. Zoological Gardens. CALIF. ZOO. [Stamped:] JUL 31 1935.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
-
cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Longitude
- 34.068242
- Latitude
- -118.283976
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
-
Lions--California
Zoo animals
Zoos--California--Los Angeles
Zoo keepers--California--Los Angeles
Tattoos
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_7840
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002dfm6p
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- 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 .