Shorty the chimpanzee plays with the typewriter, Los Angeles, 1936
Item Overview
- Title
- Shorty the chimpanzee plays with the typewriter, Los Angeles, 1936
- Photographer
- McCrory, John H. (John Howard), 1901-1946
- Date Created
- February 7, 1936
- Date
- 1936-02-07
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
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Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Notes
- Description
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Harvard alum John A. Haeseler was the owner of chimpanzees Shorty, about 3 1/2 years of age, and Ditto, 1 1/2.
Similar photograph appears in "Monkey Business"...Starring Two Chimpanzees," Los Angeles Times, California, 02 Feb. 1936: G5.
The monkey (presumably Shorty) grabs at the typewriter's tape with a grin on his face. - Caption
- Text from negative sleeve: 3565 - Shorty + Ditto Chimpanzees [stamped:] Feb 7 1936
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Humorous pictures
Typewriters
Chimpanzees
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_12645
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002hmpqw
- Manifest url
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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 .