Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1620 Lion at Franklin Park

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1620

 

Postcard. Caption on front: 245: –Lion at Franklin Park Boston, Mass.  Postmarked 1926 Boston, Mass. with two one-cent stamps.  On verso: Lion at Franklin Park, Boston, Mass. “Jim,” African Lion, captured in Nairobi, British East Africa in 1914 when 6 months old.  Gift of H.N. Slater and Sumner Wells. Pub. by M. Abrams, Roxbury, Mass.

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