Violet Pringle with Eloise the turtle "bride", Los Angeles, 1936
- Description:
- District Attorney receptionist Violet Pringle bought a female turtle named Eloise to keep company the office's male turtle named Elmer. When Violet put the turtles in a bowl along the window ledge of the sixth story office Eloise jumped out of the bowl and fell to the sidewalk below, but miraculously survived.
- Date:
- April 13, 1936
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Collection:
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Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
