Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Mot the tabby alley cat has delivered seven more kittens in her litter than is customary. She and her children now reside on the roof of the coffee shop that she gave birth in. A photograph of a picture of Ethel, her hands holding the kittens at either end of the row of twelve. Photograph appears with the article, "Alley Cat Sets Record as Champion Mother," Los Angeles Times, 27 July 1935: 6. Text from negative sleeve: 1535- Ethel Knox + cats copy 8-8-35 [stamped:] Aug 14 1935 Text from newspaper caption: Here's the champion alley-cat litter of Los Angeles, twelve kittens, all born to a gray cat making her home atop a downtown office building. Ethel Knox is the girl in the picture. Handwritten on negative: Ethel Knox + cats 8-8-35
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