Violet Pringle with Eloise the turtle "bride", Los Angeles, 1936

Item Overview

Title

Violet Pringle with Eloise the turtle "bride", Los Angeles, 1936

Date Created

April 13, 1936

Date

1936-04-13

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

District Attorney receptionist Violet Pringle bought a female turtle named Eloise to keep company the office's male turtle named Elmer. When Violet put the turtles in a bowl along the window ledge of the sixth story office Eloise jumped out of the bowl and fell to the sidewalk below, but miraculously survived.
Photograph appears with the article, "High Diver Unharmed," Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr 1936: A8.
Holding the very tiny turtle between her thumb and forefingers, Violet Pringle smiles into the camera, holding Eloise's bowl with her other hand.

Caption

Handwritten on negative: 155 Violet Pringle 4/10/36
Text from negative sleeve: 4803 - Violet Pringle Clerk Dist Att. Office 4/10/36 [stamped:] Apr 14 1936
Text from newspaper caption: Violet Pringle is holding Eloise, the picture-bride turtle who fell from a sixth-floor window of the Hall of Justice but lived to resume her honeymoon in a neat green bowl.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Pringle, Violet, b. 1902

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Office workers--California--Los Angeles
Turtles--California
Brides