Lions
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
A Lion Lying in the Grass, 1870s-1930s
Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1027
Scope and Contents
Photograph of a lion (female) lying in the grass in Africa in the early 20th century.
Dates:
1870s-1930s
Drawing of a lion eating a donkey lying on the grass, 1870s-1930s
Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/16
Scope and Contents
A black and white engraving of a lion biting the neck of a donkey who is lying on the grass.
Dates:
1870s-1930s
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Carl Hagenbeck, 31 May 1901
Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/7/16
Scope and Contents
Hagenbeck states that he will send Ewart a pair of black rats as soon as he is able to obtain them from the Zoological Gardens in Frankfurt. He is also sending him some photographs of the results of his male lion and tigress hybridisation experiments (not present).
Dates:
31 May 1901
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.
The latter part of the letter is not present.
Dates:
14 December 1900
Man-eaters of Tsavo, 1870s-1930s
Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/17
Scope and Contents
Illustration of Maasai tribe-members attacking a charging 'man-eating' lion with spears in Tsavo, Kenya, Africa in probably 1898.
Dates:
1870s-1930s