Image / Six-year-old German shepherd Jerry receives an honorary diploma, Los Angeles, 1938

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Title: Six-year-old German shepherd Jerry receives an honorary diploma, Los Angeles, 1938
Date Created and/or Issued: December 29, 1938
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.
6-year-old Jerry is recognized as a hero after he attacked one of two bandits who tried to rob $93.97 from his master Morris Horowitz's store.
Photograph appears with the article, "Thief Catching Canine Wins Recognition," Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec 1938: 9.
Jerry holds his "Diploma of Honor" between his teeth.
Handwritten on negative: Jerry a Dog 12/29/38
Text from newspaper caption: Jerry
Text from negative sleeve: 15254 - Jerry Dog catches Bandit gets diploma TIMES PHOTO BY ANDREW H. ARNOTT 12-27-38 [stamped:] Dec 29 1938
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_11992
ark:/21198/zz002h8vp9
Language: English
Subject: German shepherds--California--Los Angeles
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Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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