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File:Group of camels at the Los Angeles Zoo, ca.1920 (CHS-9747).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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Group of camels at the Los Angeles Zoo, ca.1920
Photograph of a group of camels at the Los Angeles Zoo, ca.1920. In the main pen, there are five Bactrian, or two-humped, camels standing in front of a mission-style building with two large doorways opening out into the pens. In the pen at the right of the picture, there is a small sheep, along with a leafless tree. In the pen farther back, there are more camels. Farther in the background, there are utility poles and trees. At the extreme left of the picture is a two story building situated behind a white triangular frame of some sort.
Call number: CHS-9747
Filename: CHS-9747
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: 9747
Microfiche number: 1-74-40
Archival file: chs_Volume69/CHS-9747.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 -- Camels
Legacy record ID: chs-m9656; USC-1-1-1-9795
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): Camels; Zoo animals
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/9905
Author Unknown authorUnknown author

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