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Title: Ella Zanow admonishes a chicken, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: March 19, 1936
1936-03-19
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.
Ella holds the baby chicken in the palm of her hand and raises a stern finger to him.
Story related to photograph appears with the article, "Woman Pecked In Eye By 'Vicious' Baby Chick," Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar 1936: A12.
When Ella Zanow saw a Rhode Island red chicken cornered by a group of Leghorns and Barred Rocks she went over to help but upon picking the victim up was pecked in the eye. She was treated for the pain and inflammation at Georgia Street Receiving Hospital and resolves from now on to wear dark glasses while in her chicken yard.
Text from negative sleeve: 3981 - Mrs x Ella Zanow Feature 3-12-36 [stamped:] Mar 19 1936
Handwritten on negative: Mrs. Ella Zanow
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_13006
ark:/21198/zz002hn45b
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Rhode Island red chicken
Wounds & injuries--California--Los Angeles
Zanow, Ella Johanna Franziska, 1896-1971
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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