Pomona College student Mildred Ellis conducts experiments with rats, Claremont, 1935
Item Overview
- Title
- Pomona College student Mildred Ellis conducts experiments with rats, Claremont, 1935
- Date Created
- December 24, 1935
- Date
- 1935-12-24
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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With gloved hands Mildred Ellis sits behind the table while three mice scuffle about and a fourth one rests in her palms.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Claremont Girl Makes Unusual Experiment," Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec 1935: A5.
Phi Beta Kappa member Mildred Ellis, as part of her honors work in bio-chemistry, conducts an experiment that involves feeding rats a diet of wheat, milk, salts, vitamins and powdered aspirin that seeks to prove whether rats can harm themselves while taking regular doses of aspirin.
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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Ellis, Mildred
Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.) - Location
- Claremont (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Rats--California
Students--American--California--Claremont
Animal experimentation--California--Claremont
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_13283
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002hnfqz
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
- UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
- Rights Holder
- The Regents of the University of California
- 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 .