In 1937, Dr. William M. Mann, the Director of the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., led a 9-month expedition to the Far East to collect animals for the National Zoo. (At about this same time, Dr. Harry Wegeforth was making similar collecting trips there to get animals for the San Diego Zoo.) To help stretch his budget, Dr. Mann brought along a few American wild animals – black bears, mountain lions, alligators, jaguars, etc. – to trade for animals he wanted. A full account of the Mann Expedition was published in the June 1938 issue of NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, from which these photos were scanned. |
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
1937 Mann Expedition #1 (From Eric Beheim)
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When the Mann expedition arrived in Sumatra, Dr. and Mrs. Mann chartered a car to drive them to Pematang Siantar, which they described as having “all modern improvements, including several motion pictures theaters, one showing a Clyde Beatty jungle feature!”
Last year when Buckles’ Blog ran a series marking the 60th anniversary of the filming of DeMille’s TGSOE, several people identified Dr. Mann as the well-dressed gentleman leading an elephant in one of the scenes that had been filmed while the train was being unloaded in Washington, D.C.
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