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. Cleo the canary was used to measure levels of carbon monoxide in tunnels, which can prove to be very dangerous to those who are more susceptible to the gas. Company secretary of the testing facility Colonial Mutual Compensation Insurance Company John P. McNabb will be submitting the test results to the Health Department and other sectors. Story related to the photograph appears with the article, "Fumes Too Much for Canary in Tunnel Text," Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar 1936: A1. McNabb, a blonde woman and several other men are seen in an unidentified location examining a bird cage with Cleo perched inside and a machine beside the cage. Text from negative sleeve: 4399 - John P. McNabb Lone Morf Wayne C Wyman H.H. Matthieson Gas Tests 3/12/36 [stamped:] Mar 19 1936 Handwritten on negative: L2R John P McNabb Lone Morf 3/12/36
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_13565 ark:/21198/zz002hnsg5
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Birdcages Animal experimentation--California--Los Angeles Poisons Birds--California McNabb, John P Morf, Lone, 1913-1985
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