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16 photos and 1 illustration tagged captivity, from 4 members of Flickr Commons.

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Tags that often appear on the same photos & illustrations:

• mysterious
• blackandwhitephotograph
• grain
• archives
• unusual
• animal
• blur
• mark
• circus
• fairground
• controversial
• socialhistory
• glassslide
• unitedkingdom
• documentaryphotography
• archivephotograph
• digitalimage
• blackandwhite
• circusanimal
• documentation
• blackoutline
• northeastofengland
• fur
• menageries

Members using this tag

• North East Museums 14 photos & illustrations
• National Science and Media Museum 1 photo / illustration
• Powerhouse Museum 1 photo / illustration
• British Library 1 photo / illustration

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Leopard, Lord John Sanger & Sons

from North East Museums

• 1 older comment, and then…
• Tidy Magic said:

  That poor cat!

• Peter Mackey said:

  thank goodness we no longer treat wild animals like this.

• kevin.scrivens said:

  Looks like Jesmond Dene

• Claire Dart said:

  www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=250&show=1 has information about Sanger circus

• North Tyne Hunt Sabs said:

  Peter Mackey Not in this country anyway.

Two caged lions

from North East Museums

• kevin.scrivens said:

  Bostock & Wombwell's Menagerie

Observing a caged lion

from North East Museums

• kevin.scrivens said:

  Bostock & Wombwell's Menagerie. 'Captain Fred Wombwell in the cage with the lioness Mary at Leicester in 1927. She had saved his life a few weeks previously when she intervened in a cage dispute with the lion Wallace' (from book 'A Zoo on Wheels' by Dr. J. Midlemiss.