Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Blossom holds the animal in her arms like a baby. Blossom Taylor came home just in time to find Officers Hartzell and Batt trying to lasso her pet anteater loose in the front yard, but reassured them that her Central American pet was harmless. Photograph appears with the article, "Meek Anteater Trapped By Puzzled Police Pair," Los Angeles Times, 18 July 1935: A1. Handwritten on negative: Mrs. Blossom Taylor - "Bichita" Ant Eater Text from newspaper caption: Bichita, 7-year-old anteater, clings to her mistress, Mrs. Robert F. Taylor, after being rescued from under a house where two radio officers had closed all exits. Text from negative sleeve: 1279 - Blossom Taylor Ant Eater "Bichita" Lost Ant Eater 7/17/35 [stamped:] Jul 22 1935
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