Anna Held posing with lion

Please visit the California Revealed website to see the most complete and up-to-date version of this object: https://repository.californiarevealed.org/node/406668. Portrait of Anna Held, seated with a lion cub on her lap. In the late 19th century, celebrity publicity escalated due to the development of modern photographic processes and the overland telegraph and theater soon became a popular diversion throughout California, contributing to the boom in the film industry in the 1920s. COPYRIGHT 1896 / BY / W.M.MORRISON / 13.; ANNA HELD; MORRISON; HAYMARKET THEATRE BLDG. / 161 WEST MADISON ST. / CHICAGO