Elsie the Borden Cow, star of the 1940 film "Little Men," Los Angeles, 1940
Item Overview
- Title
- Elsie the Borden Cow, star of the 1940 film "Little Men," Los Angeles, 1940
- Date Created
- 1940
- Date
- 1940
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Daily News
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Notes
- Description
- Elsie the Borden Cow, the unofficial mascott for Borden dairy products, with her handlers. After appearing at the New York World's Fair, Elsie was chosen by R.K.O. producer Gene Towne to star in the 1940 film "Little Men," based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott. Elsie arrived in Los Angeles on July 12, 1940
- Caption
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Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Cow Elsie (R.K.O.)
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Larson, Donna; with Cow "Elise"
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Names
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Elsie (Cow)
RKO Pictures - Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Actresses--American--California
Entertainment
Cows--California
Animals
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz00280829
- 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
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .