Cat and bird maintain an unusual friendship in the State Prison, Folsom, 1936

Title: Cat and bird maintain an unusual friendship in the State Prison, Folsom, 1936
Date Created: March 5, 1936
Date: 1936-03-05
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Two convicted murderers of Folsom State Prison rescued a baby linnet and a newborn kitten from hunger and malnutrition and nursed them back to health. The cat and bird live in the prison's print shop in complete harmony.
While the cat sleeps his bird companion perches on his front legs and pulls at one of the cat's whiskers in his beak.
Photograph appears with the article, "Cat and Bird in Prison Form Odd Attachment," Los Angeles Times, 05 Mar. 1936: A1.
Caption: Text from newspaper caption: And here it is. Here's the hair-raising climax. The linnet is lifting a whisker from his friend to line his nest. Theft in prison: what! But Warden Court Smith, who furnished the pictures taken by the murderer-trainer of the linnet, says the whisker-pulling is just the bird's way of awakening his playmate.
Text from negative sleeve: 3877 - Cat and bird 3/5/36 [stamped:] Mar 6 1936
Handwritten on negative: From: Warden Court Smith

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_12908
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