English: Note: Despite the title, this is actually a photo of the Selig Zoo, operated on the grounds of the silent film studio.
DescriptionAsian elephant at the Los Angeles Zoo, ca.1920 (CHS-9746).jpg
English:
Asian elephant at the Los Angeles Zoo, ca.1920
Photograph of an Asian elephant at the Los Angeles Zoo, ca.1920. The elephant is at center and is walking to the right from under a shelter with a conical straw roof. In the background is a large adobe building with an arched doorway which is flanked by identical arched windows covered by metal vents. There is a low metal fence surrounding the elephant compound visible in the foreground.
Call number: CHS-9746
Filename: CHS-9746
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: 9746
Microfiche number: 1-74-39
Archival file: chs_Volume84/CHS-9746.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): 1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 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): photographs
Geographic subject (state): California
Subject (file heading): Animals -- Elephants
Legacy record ID: chs-m14018; USC-1-1-1-14175
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