Al Horton and Leo McDonald with the wandering possum, Los Angeles, 1936

Title: Al Horton and Leo McDonald with the wandering possum, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created: January 1936
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Initially mistaken for a skunk, the officers at the Georgia Street police station were wary of being sprayed by the creature, until Alabama native Radio Officer Thomas Jefferson Woolridge truly identified the creature.
Story related to photograph appears with the article, "Opossum Throws Skunk Scare Into Police," Los Angeles Times, 09 Jan 1936: A1.
While Leo McDonald writes the possum stands by his arm with his mouth open in a sneer. Al Horton holds the animal by the tail while two other men peer at the creature behind them.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 3402 - Leo Mc Donald Al Horton Possum found in downtown building (Complaint Board LAPD 1/ [stamped:] Jan 29 1936
Handwritten on negative: Al Horton Leo Mc Donald

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Subjects: Police stations--California--Los Angeles
Opossums--California
Police--California--Los Angeles
Names: Horton, Al
McDonald, Leo
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local identifier: uclamss_1429_12391
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002h8f7s
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