John P. McNabb tests carbon monoxide levels, Los Angeles, 1936
Item Overview
- Title
- John P. McNabb tests carbon monoxide levels, Los Angeles, 1936
- Date Created
- March 11, 1936
- Date
- 1936-03-11
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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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.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Names
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Morf, Lone, 1913-1985
McNabb, John P. - Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Poisons
Birdcages
Birds--California
Animal experimentation--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_13565
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002hnsg5
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
- 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
- Rights Holder
- The Regents of the University of California
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .