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Title: Bennie the deer, view 4
Alternative Title: Eyre Powell Chamber of Commerce Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1927
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: Bennie (or Benny) the deer was said to have been the former pet of revolutionary Pancho Villa, and was given to Betty Bradley while she was visiting in Mexico with her parents. In 1929, Bennie escaped and was found wandering in Downtown Los Angeles and apprehended by police. He was "paroled" and returned to Miss Bradley with a stern warning that another escaped would land Bennie in a zoo.
Betty Bradley sits on a couch on a deck with her pet deer "Bennie" in Beverly Hills in 1927.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00065237
Eyre Powell Chamber of Commerce Collection
N-005-243.4 4x5
CARL0000068992
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/109126
Subject: Bradley, Betty
Animals--California--Beverly Hills
Deer--California--Beverly Hills
Dwellings--California--Beverly Hills
Decks (Architecture, Domestic)--California--Beverly Hills
Sofas--California--Beverly Hills
Girls--California--Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills (Calif.)

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