File:Two caged lions at the Los Angeles Zoo, ca.1920 (CHS-9745).jpg

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English: Note: Despite the title, this is actually a photo of the Selig Zoo, operated on the grounds of the silent film studio.
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Two caged lions at the Los Angeles Zoo, ca.1920
Photograph of two caged lions at the Los Angeles Zoo, ca.1920. There is a male lion, identified by his shaggy mane, lying down with his paws crossed to the right of a crouching lioness; both are staring at the camera. They are behind metal bars and the foundation of their cage is stone or concrete. In the cage to their left, there is another unidentified large animal. There is a metal ring bolted to the wall between the two cages.
Call number: CHS-9745
Filename: CHS-9745
Coverage date: circa 1920
Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Format: glass plate negatives
Type: images
Geographic subject (city or populated place): Los Angeles
Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections
Accession number: 9745
Microfiche number: 1-74-38
Archival file: chs_Volume84/CHS-9745.tiff
Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Geographic subject (country): USA
Format (aacr2): 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm., 17 x 22 cm.
Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
Subject (adlf): parks
Project: USC
Repository email: specol@usc.edu
Contributing entity: California Historical Society
Date created: circa 1920
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): photographic prints; photographs
Geographic subject (state): California
Subject (file heading): Animals -- Lions
Legacy record ID: chs-m14023; USC-1-1-1-14181
Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Geographic subject (county): Los Angeles
Subject (lcsh): Lions
Date circa 1920
date QS:P,+1920-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/13587
Author Unknown authorUnknown author

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