W.A. "Snake" King and Python

From the Leah Malasko Collection ~ a scrapbook of photos saved by John "Chubby Guilfoyle and his wife Harriet, both wild animal trainers since the early 1920s who met the W.A. King in 1933.  Manuel King was trained by Chubby to become the World's Youngest Wild Animal Trainer and traveled across the eastern half of the United States performing for audiences during the warm seasons and eventually landing a summer stint on an Atlantic City.  This photo is a extremely rare publicity photo of W.A. King taken during the mid-1930's at a  city zoo while touring with his son Manuel.