W. J. Richards and June the puma at the California Zoological Gardens, Los Angeles, 1936
Item Overview
- Title
- W. J. Richards and June the puma at the California Zoological Gardens, Los Angeles, 1936
- Date Created
- September 24, 1936
- Date
- 1936-09-24
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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At the California Zoological Gardens, Duke, a 600-pound Bengal tiger, attacked June, an adult mountain lion, dislocating her vertebra and elbow. The tiger tore through the wire netting between the two cages that separated them. June is reported as healing but very temperamental from the incident. Duke was successfully sedated.
Related photograph appears with the article, "Tiger Does Man Mountain Act With Lioness in Cage," Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep 1936: 10.
In 1912 William Selig purchased the site that 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.
June looks out through the bars of her cage.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Names
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California Zoological Gardens
Richards, W.J. - Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Longitude
- 34.068242
- Latitude
- -118.199599
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Zoos--California--Los Angeles
Wild cats
Animal attacks--California--Los Angeles
Cages--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_14566
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002j85t4
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
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- Rights Holder
- The Regents of the University of California
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .