Historical Portrait

Anna Held posing with lion

1896·Source: internet_archive·View original ↗·Public Domain

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Archive record

Anna Held, famous stage actress, posed with a lion cub in this 1896 theatrical publicity photograph by W.M. Morrison in Chicago. Public-domain historical image.

About this photograph

Anna Held was a stage actress. This photograph was taken in 1896 by W.M. Morrison in Chicago as a publicity image. It shows her posed with a lion cub.

Morrison's dates were 1857 to 1927.

The photograph is held by the Internet Archive. It carries a California Revealed tag, which indicates it was digitised through a statewide programme that makes material from California libraries, archives, museums and historical societies publicly available. The tag marks where the photograph was digitised rather than where it was taken.

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Rights & Attribution

Credit: Internet Archive

Rights: Public Domain. No restrictions on use.

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