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Title: Raccoons at West Los Angeles animal shelter
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Sergieff, Mike
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1977
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Photograph caption dated September 22, 1977 reads, "Ten raccoons, picked up all over West Los Angeles, are awaiting to be airlifted by helicopter from the West Los Angeles Shelter cage to a more suitable habitat in the Angeles National Forest, as a unique wildlife conservation program. The raccoons are migrating from area brush to residences in search of food, which is getting short from the drought."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00084441
Herald Examiner Collection
HH_b031_f5_i13
CARL0002888623
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/26063
Subject: West Los Angeles Animal Care Center (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Raccoon--California--Los Angeles
Animal shelters--California--Los Angeles
West Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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