McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 033b
Item
- Title
- McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 033b
- Description
- One side of a flier handed out by the San Antonio Reptile Garden in the mid-1930s entitled "Reptile Facts." The Reptile Garden opened in the 1930s as a fundraising facility for the Witte Museum. The Garden featured turtle races, snake handling demonstrations, fried rattlesnake meat, and rattlesnake dinner fund raisers. It also became a research center for the use of antivenom. The Garden closed in the early 1940s, its live snakes donated to the San Antonio Zoo.
- Contributor
- Audrey Fullerton-Samora of Sacramento, great niece of William and Grace McCarthy, donated the William M. McCarthy Photograph Collection to the California State Archives in 1996.
- Coverage
- Not Applicable
- Date
- 1934
- Format
- JPEG, scanned at 400 DPI, 24-bit color
- Identifier
- 96-07-08-alb11-033b
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- California State Archives, a division of the California Secretary of State's Office
- Rights
- © 2017 by the California State Archives, a division of the Secretary of State’s Office. Contact the owner for more information at ArchivesWeb@sos.ca.gov or (916) 653-2246.
- Source
- Image of an item within the William M. McCarthy Photograph Collection (96-07-08)
- Subject
- San Antonio Reptile Garden Informational Flier "Reptile Facts"
- Type
- Still Image
- Media
96-07-08-alb11-033b.jpg