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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
uclamss_1429_0075
0075
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Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Animals
Crime
Legal
People
Rattlesnakes
Houtenbrink, Johanssen C., b. 1905
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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