A very strange collection of postcards here; early 20th century halftone photographs applied with colour depicting at the Los Angeles Alligator Farm in the early 20th century. For a 25 cents admission fee, visitors could visit the most complete reptile collection in the world in its heyday. As the postcards show, children could enjoy a piggyback ride on their most ‘domesticated’ gators…
–more via the Oddment Emporium
Here are some less altered photos compiled by Ken Earnest, the grandson of one of the founders of the Alligator and Ostrich Farms in Lincoln Heights …
And over at the SAMLAND blog, you can see a bit of a retrospective of the Los Angeles crocodile farm and find out a little more about its history.
More via SAMLAND / The Oddment Emporium
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