Subject: Animal training--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Tiger trainer Mabel Stark scratches one of her tigers on the chin. Stark is referred to as the world's first female tiger trainer. Here, she is at Shrine Auditorium for the annual Shrine Charity Circus. The Shrine Charity Circus is a 10-day event, which features an indoor show by the Polack Bros. Circus. Orphaned and underprivileged children are allowed to visit the circus as their admission is paid by affluent members of the community. The circus also travels to the children's hospital to entertain sick children who can't attend. Proceeds from the circus go to Shrine charitable activities.
Date:: between June 8 and June 18, 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Tiger trainer Mabel Stark stands by a cage containing two of her tigers. Stark is referred to as the world's first female tiger trainer. Here, she is at Shrine Auditorium for the annual Shrine Charity Circus. The Shrine Charity Circus is a 10-day event, which features an indoor show by the Polack Bros. Circus. Orphaned and underprivileged children are allowed to visit the circus as their admission is paid by affluent members of the community. The circus also travels to the children's hospital to entertain sick children who can't attend. Proceeds from the circus go to Shrine charitable activities.
Date:: between June 8 and June 18, 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: This photograph appears with the article, “NAVY PAYS LAST HONOR TO WEAVER,” Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 1936: A15.
Date:: January 5, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Olga holds a snarling leopard named 125 pound leopard named Eckie with one hand around the throat and another gripping his torso.
Date:: [circa June 6, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A behind-the-scenes look at the animal actors that have roles in popular motion pictures. These animals are well-groomed like any human Hollywood star, and are trained for the profession from a very young age, marked as being highly intelligent. They reside at the California Zoological Gardens on Lincoln Park Boulevard.Anna May is an Indian elephant who has been in the motion picture business for 26 years. Other than her diet of hay and fruit, two of Anna May's favorite things to eat, trainer Alfred Alcorn explains, are onions and tobacco.
Date:: [circa June 6, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A behind-the-scenes look at the animal actors that have roles in popular motion pictures. These animals are well-groomed like any human Hollywood star, and are trained for the profession from a very young age, marked as being highly intelligent. They reside at the California Zoological Gardens on Lincoln Park Boulevard.Goat is described as being very stubborn and a picky eater - he insists on a special diet of lettuce, cabbage and carrots, which is readily supplied for him.
Date:: [circa June 6, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Similar photographs appear with the article, "Stars That No Director Dares Defy!", Los Angeles Times, 07 June 1936: I4.
Date:: [circa June 6, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Similar photographs appear with the article, "Stars That No Director Dares Defy!", Los Angeles Times, 07 June 1936: I4.
Date:: [circa June 6, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Similar photographs appear with the article, "Stars That No Director Dares Defy!", Los Angeles Times, 07 June 1936: I4.
Date:: [circa June 6, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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