Johanssen Houtenbrink ("Snake Joe"), witness in Mary Emma James murder case, with rattlesnake, 1936

Title: Johanssen Houtenbrink ("Snake Joe"), witness in Mary Emma James murder case, with rattlesnake, 1936
Date Created: 1936
Date: 1936
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Related to Los Angeles Times article, June 30, 1936, Snakes Awe James Jury, Reptiles Rattle in Murder Trial, Enraged Serpents in Box Exhibited While Experts and Others Testify
Joe Houtenbrink, seated, holding rattlesnake, right hand near head, left hand near rattle, snake wrapped around his right arm, looking at snake, smiling, indoors with paneled wall in background
Caption: Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 1738, NITRATE, 2 neg. J.C. Houtenbrink (Snake Joe), James Murder Case, 5/6/36
Handwritten at edge of negative: Joe Houtenbrink

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: 0075
uclamss_1429_0075
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002d98m8
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