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"Pop-eye", a Persian housecat, made famous for killing a four-foot-long black diamond rattlesnake

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Title: "Pop-eye", a Persian housecat, made famous for killing a four-foot-long black diamond rattlesnake
Date Created and/or Issued: March 15, 1934
1934-03-15
Publication Information: Los Angeles Daily News
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Pictured is "Pop-eye", the two-year-old Persian housecat pet of one young Miss Betty Jean Welch, famous for killing a four-foot-long black diamond rattlesnake. The snake invaded Pop-eye's backyard, wherein Pop-eye defended his territory and bravely defeated the reptilian invader.
Text from original nitrate negative: "Pop-eye" and Snake; Welch, Betty Jean.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: ark:/21198/zz0025449j
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Entertainment
Environment
Cats--California
Culture
Source: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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