Lucile Quarry Mann Feeding Tiger Cub, Babette

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Object Details

Author

Unknown

Subject

Mann, Lucile Quarry 1897-

Mann, William M. 1886-1960

National Zoological Park (U.S.)

Notes

Featured in TORCH, January 1987.

Summary

Lucile Quarry Mann, wife of the National Zoological Park director, William M. Mann, feeding a tiger cub named Babette from a bottle. The Manns raised the cub at home, May 26, 1949.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 371 Box 5 Folder January 1987

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

1949

Standard number

79-11710

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Type

Photographic print

Person, candid

Physical description

Color: Black and White; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Person, candid; Medium: Photographic print

Data Source

Smithsonian Archives - History Div

Topic

Babette (Tiger)

Tiger Cub

Births

Metadata Usage

Usage conditions apply

Record ID

siris_sic_9004