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[Photograph 2012.201.B0228.0315]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "of waiting for his first performance seems to be a strain on this trained bear, shown with trainer Dick Clemens at the nearly-completed Lincoln Park zoo "big top."
Date: May 7, 1956
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0228.0319]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "it was just one of those things. . ." Making that understatement of the week was Dick Clemens, 57-year-old Lincoln Park zoo lion tamer, after being chewed, clawed and mauled by a 125-pound Hokkaido bear."
Date: August 13, 1956
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0228.0313]

Description: Caption: "C-46 pilot F. B. Lynotte, left, warily eyes what he called the strangest cargo he has ever flown as lion tamer Dick Clemens quiets one of his restless pets which arrived here Thursday night to appear in the VFW polio circus opening Saturday in Lincoln park amphitheater." Two men looking at lion roaring in cage.
Date: June 28, 1951
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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