Thelma and Doris Patent of Al G. Barnes' circus, Los Angeles, 1936

Description: Similar photograph appears with the article, "Mother Helps Junior Learn About Circus," Los Angeles Times, 04 Apr 1936: A5.
Barnes' circus holds sixty steel railroad cars, 700 people and 500 animals of which there are 26 lions and tigers, and lots of activity.
The two women stand beside each other, their hair appearing to be white in color, wrapped in leopard-patterned cloaks.
Caption: Handwritten on negative: L2R Thelma Patent Doris Patent 4/3/36
Text from negative sleeve: 4783 - George Rearick Chita Christiani Marian Darling Peter Duart Genevieve Canestrelli Diane White Thelma Patent Doris Patent Gabriel Castella June Sergie Marguerite Garner Barnes Circus here 4/3/36 [stamped:] Apr 14 1936

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Patent, Doris, b. 1914 or 15
Al G. Barnes Wild Animal Circus
Patent, Thelma, b. 1912 or 13
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.03193
Latitude: -118.266788
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Circuses & shows--California--Los Angeles
Circus performers
Sisters--American--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_14000
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002j7h9r
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