PC-000-443

Men, women, and children stand behind a fence and reach out to the trunks of elephants behind barriers at the San Diego Zoo

 

 

 

Adams-McCafferty, San Diego, California

The inscription in hand printing identifies the animals as "Asiatic Elephants" at the "Zoolotical Gardens" in San Diego--Calif." In the photograph two elephants are standing behind reinforced pillars that keep their heads from reaching the fence behind which two men, two women, and three children are standing. The people appear to be reaching out to the trunks of the elephants that extend through the bars and over the fence, as if they were feeding the animals. In 2013 Asian elephants are classified as "vulnerable" by the IUCN Red List (International Union for Conservation of Nature). This is a Real Photo Post Card (RPPC) made with Dops photo paper (as evidenced in the stampbox on the back of this card). The Real Photo process allowed photographers to take a "snap shot" and have it finished at a photo shop that printed it out on postcard backing for mailing. Dops photo paper was made from 1925 to 1942.

San Diego Zoo; Zoos; Zoological Gardens; Balboa Park; San Diego; Elephants; Endangered species; Asian elephants; RPPC; Real Photo Post Cards; Dops photo papers; Adams-McCafferty

2920 Zoo Drive

California - San Diego - Balboa Park

 

 

MS-0008

English

 

Postcard

3.5 inches x 5.5 inches

No

 

[hand-printed in white superimposed on card and centered at bottom]
Asiatic Elephants
Zoological Gardens
San Diego------Calif.

[hand-printed in white in lower right corner superimposed on photograph]
#27
Adams-McCafferty
427 E St. San Diego

 

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TIFF

12.82 MB