McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 030

Title: McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 030
Description: No Caption: Shows a group of adult African lions in a enclosed area of Gay's Lion Farm in El Monte, Los Angeles. Charles and Muriel Gay opened the farm in 1925 and operated it until 1942 as a popular tourist attraction where lions were selectively bred and trained for the Hollywood film industry. It was closed during WWII due to wartime meat shortages, and the lions were loaned to zoos around the country, c. 1935.
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: El Monte, Los Angeles County, California
Date: 1935
Format: JPEG, scanned at 400 DPI, 24-bit color
Identifier: 96-07-08-alb10-030
Language: English
Publisher: California State Archives, a division of the California Secretary of State's Office
Source: Image of an item within the William M. McCarthy Photograph Collection (96-07-08)
Subject: Gay's Lion Farm, El Monte, Los Angeles
Type: Still Image