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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:: Berrien von Grunigen, Secretary of the Artists and Models Club, and Olga Celeste, noted animal trainer, specializing in big cats, lean against a table next to Eckie the leopard, one of Olga's trained cats. Olga holds a sheet of paper in her right hand, as if showing it to Eckie. Eckie wears a harness.
Date:: [circa May 5, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Related to Los Angeles Times article, "Fair at Pomona Best in History: Los Angeles County Events Now in Full Blast: Exhibits Excel All Records in Size and Beauty: Race Track Laurels Expected to Set New Mark," 18 Sept. 1929: A1.
Date:: [circa September 1929]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: In 1912 William Selig purchased the site that is now Lincoln Park in Los Angeles, atMission 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.
Date:: July 14, 1935
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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