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Title	Roscoe Turner and Gilmore the lion.
Place	Hartford (Conn.)
Topic	Lions Theaters Military uniforms
Topic-Person	Turner, Roscoe, 1895-1970
Genre	Photographs
Theme	Livelihood
Description	A man wearing a miltary style uniform and hat stands holding the leash of a full grown male lion. They are standing outside a theater, a crowd of men and women are partially visible in the background. Inscribed on front: "Roscoe Turner"
Notes	Title supplied by cataloger.<br>Roscoe Turner was a barnstormer pilot who was sponsered by the Gilmore Oil Company. As a publicity stunt he flew with a lion cub that he named Gilmore after the company. After a few months Gilmore became too big to fly, but Turner was still well known for being the pilot with the lion cub.
Date created	[193-]
Physical format	1 photographic print ; 21 x 26 cm.
Digital format	image/jpeg
Identifier	Accession number: 2003.31.114<br>File name: chs_m9_2003_31_114.jpg
Source	The Connecticut Historical Society
Collection	William H. Mortensen Collection.
Rights	Reproduction and copyright information regarding this image is available from The Graphics Collection, The Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford.
Sub-collection	Photographs

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