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Leopard

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

For a Reward, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/289
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a leopard being brought in for a government reward in Angul, India in the late 19th or early 20th century. Two Indian men in traditional dress carry the trussed leopard hanging from a pole between them while an Indian man in Western dress watches in the background.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Leopard, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1151
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a group of African men crossing a river returning from a hunt with a leopard hanging from a pole in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Leopard Proof Kraal, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1001
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a leopard proof kraal in [Sevenoakes?] South Africa in the early 20th century. The image shows a wooden enclosure on the plains with a forest in the background.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Carl Hagenbeck (incomplete), 14 December 1900

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/6/36
Scope and Contents

Hagenbeck sends Ewart details and photographs (not present) of his cross breeding experiments with a lion and a tiger born at the Hagenpark in Hamburg in 1897. He is also attempting to cross a female leopard with a Bengal tiger.

The latter part of the letter is not present.

Dates: 14 December 1900

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir Claud Alexander, 05 September 1911

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/17/52
Scope and Contents

Alexander reports that he has inspected Ewart's leopard at the Zoo and that it seems in good health. He asks Ewart to notify him if he is planning to sell her and comments that he has found a remnant of the Chartley cattle herd.

Dates: 05 September 1911