Al Horton and Leo McDonald with the wandering possum, Los Angeles, 1936
Item Overview
- Title
- Al Horton and Leo McDonald with the wandering possum, Los Angeles, 1936
- Date Created
- January 1936
- Date
- 1936-01
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Initially mistaken for a skunk, the officers at the Georgia Street police station were wary of being sprayed by the creature, until Alabama native Radio Officer Thomas Jefferson Woolridge truly identified the creature.
While Leo McDonald writes the possum stands by his arm with his mouth open in a sneer. Al Horton holds the animal by the tail while two other men peer at the creature behind them.
Story related to photograph appears with the article, "Opossum Throws Skunk Scare Into Police," Los Angeles Times, 09 Jan 1936: A1.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Names
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McDonald, Leo
Horton, Al - Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Opossums--California
Police--California--Los Angeles
Police stations--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_12391
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002h8f7s
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .