Soichi Ito with an Onagadori, long-tailed chicken, at the Olympic Hotel, Los Angeles, 1935

Title: Soichi Ito with an Onagadori, long-tailed chicken, at the Olympic Hotel, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created: December 6, 1935
Date: 1935-12-06
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Photograph published with the article, "Japanese Bird Long On Plumes: Vancouver Visitor Exhibits Rooster With Feathers Twenty-four Feet Long," Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 1935: A3.
Soichi Ito with his $1,000 pet, a white Onagadori, long-tail chicken in his room at the Olympic Hotel (formerly at 117 North San Pedro Street, which is now Judge John Aiso Street).
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 3083. Soichi Ito. Bird fancier. 12/8/35. [Stamped:] Dec 11 1935.
Text from newspaper caption: Soichi Ito, Japanese bird fancier, and one of the two long-tailed chickens he brought here from Vancouver, B. C. This one's tail is twenty-four feet long.

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_10882
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hb0p4
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