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Title: Cat and bird maintain an unusual friendship, Folsom State Prison, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: March 5, 1936
1936-03-05
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
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
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Similar photographs appear with the article, "Cat and Bird in Prison Form Odd Attachment," Los Angeles Times, 05 Mar. 1936: A1.
Relaxing cat and bird stare at each other as bird perches atop the cat's limb.
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.
Handwritten on negative: From: Warden Court Smith
Text from negative sleeve: 3877 - Cat and bird 3/5/36 [stamped:] Mar 6 1936
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_12911
ark:/21198/zz002hn0w8
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Cats--California
Friendship
Birds--California
Folsom Prison
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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