"Pop-eye," a brave Persian housecat, and his owner Betty Jean Welch.
Item Overview
- Title
- "Pop-eye," a brave Persian housecat, and his owner Betty Jean Welch.
- Date Created
- March 15, 1934
- Date
- 1934-03-15
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Daily News
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Notes
- Description
- Pictured is "Pop-eye," the two-year-old Persian housecat in the arms of his owner, Miss Betty Jean Welch. Pop-eye became famous for killing a four-foot-long black diamond rattlesnake. The snake invaded Pop-eye's backyard, wherein Pop-eye defended his territory and bravely defeated the reptilian invader.
- Caption
- Text from original nitrate sleeve: "Pop-eye" and Snake; Welch, Betty Jean.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
-
news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Names
- Welch, Betty Jean
- Location
- Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
-
People
Portrait photographs
Cats--California
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002544b2
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
-
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .