Ella Zanow admonishes a chicken, Los Angeles, 1936

Description: Ella holds the baby chicken in the palm of her hand and raises a stern finger to him.
Story related to photograph appears with the article, "Woman Pecked In Eye By 'Vicious' Baby Chick," Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar 1936: A12.
When Ella Zanow saw a Rhode Island red chicken cornered by a group of Leghorns and Barred Rocks she went over to help but upon picking the victim up was pecked in the eye. She was treated for the pain and inflammation at Georgia Street Receiving Hospital and resolves from now on to wear dark glasses while in her chicken yard.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 3981 - Mrs x Ella Zanow Feature 3-12-36 [stamped:] Mar 19 1936
Handwritten on negative: Mrs. Ella Zanow

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Zanow, Ella Johanna Franziska, 1896-1971
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Rhode Island red chicken
Wounds & injuries--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_13006
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hn45b
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