Young boy named Peter Duart feeds Agatha the elephant, Los Angeles, 1936

Title: Young boy named Peter Duart feeds Agatha the elephant, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created: April 14, 1936
Date: 1936-04-14
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Photograph appears with the article, "Mother Helps Junior Learn About Circus," Los Angeles Times, 04 Apr 1936: A5.
Onlookers watch as Peter feeds a hay-covered Agatha.
Barnes' circus holds sixty steel railroad cars, 700 people and 500 animals of which there are 26 lions and tigers, and lots of activity.
Caption: Text from newspaper caption: Agatha is really happier than she looks. Junior saw to that by providing peanuts in great quantities to the mammoths at the opening of circus days at Washington Boulevard and Hill street yesterday. Little Peter Duart is doing the honors here.
Handwritten on negative: Peter Duart 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: Al G. Barnes Wild Animal Circus
Duart, Peter
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.03193
Latitude: -118.266788
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Circuses & shows--California--Los Angeles
Children--California--Los Angeles
Show tents--California--Los Angeles
Elephants--California

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_14004
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002j7hft
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Rights Country: US
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