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Johanssen Houtenbrink ("Snake Joe"), witness in Mary Emma James murder case, with rattlesnake, 1936

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Title: Johanssen Houtenbrink ("Snake Joe"), witness in Mary Emma James murder case, with rattlesnake, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: 1936
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Related to Los Angeles Times article, June 30, 1936, Snakes Awe James Jury, Reptiles Rattle in Murder Trial, Enraged Serpents in Box Exhibited While Experts and Others Testify
Joe Houtenbrink, seated, holding rattlesnake, right hand near head, left hand near rattle, snake wrapped around his right arm, looking at snake, smiling, indoors with paneled wall in background
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 1738, NITRATE, 2 neg. J.C. Houtenbrink (Snake Joe), James Murder Case, 5/6/36
Handwritten at edge of negative: Joe Houtenbrink
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: 0075
uclamss_1429_0075
ark:/21198/zz002d98m8
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Legal
Crime
Rattlesnakes
People
Animals
Houtenbrink, Johanssen C., b. 1905
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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