US UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
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Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Cat lies patiently still and allows his bird companion to perch atop his head. Two convicted murderers of Folsom State Prison rescued a baby linnet and a newborn kitten from hunger and malnutrition and nursed them back to health. The cat and bird live in the prison's print shop in complete harmony. Photograph appears with the article, "Cat and Bird in Prison Form Odd Attachment," Los Angeles Times, 05 Mar. 1936: A1. Handwritten on negative: From: Warden Court Smith Text from negative sleeve: 3877 - Cat and bird 3/5/36 [stamped:] Mar 6 1936 Text from newspaper caption: Here's the first moment of suspense- why hasn't there been a murder, why is the linnet still alive? The nerve of him sitting on his hereditary enemy's head! But their kind-hearted murderer-masters have taught them to love each other.
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