Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Subject: Cats--California - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Photograph, from left to right, of Charlie Mertz, Kate Mertz and Frances Nichols standing in front of their home at Nichols Ranch in Santa Ana. All three gaze off towards the left. Charlie Mertz stands in front of a tree and rests his hands to his hips. Kate Mertz stands at center and hangs her arms by her side. To the right of her, Frances Nichols holds a cat. Behind them, the front porch of the home stands at right. The house is viewed at an angle as it stretches on an angle from right to left behind the trio.
Date:: [circa 1899]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Photograph of Frances Nichols sitting with a cat in her lap on the porch of her home at Nichols Ranch. Frances sits right-of-center on the low floor of the porch. She looks down towards her lap where she holds a cat. The cat sits up partially and looks to the camera. To the left of them, a scrapper with "Jack" written on it is affixed to a low post and a porch post that rises along the left edge of the image. Behind Frances, the porch floor stretches across the image. A door stands behind and to the left of Frances and a window is to the right of the door.
Date:: [circa 1899]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Two pictures of Rosita Dee Cornell, daughter of landscape architect Ralph D. Cornell, in one she is sitting cross-legged on the floor; in the other she is holding a housecat
Date:: November 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Cornell, Ralph D.
Collection:: Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

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.
Date:: March 15, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Photograph taken by Sifton Friedman of a cat walking down the stairs with a kitten in its mouth, titled "REFUGEES." The photo was featured in the annual Popular Photography exhibit displayed at Barker Bros. The exhibit features approximately 100 photographs from both amateur and professional photographers, which were chosen through an international contest
Date:: [1940s?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: A woman feeding a cat with a plate of scraps on the S.S. Mariposa.
Date:: [1937?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Pictured is "Pop-eye," the two-year-old Persian housecat pet of one young Miss Betty Jean Welch, 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.
Date:: March 15, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Pictured is "Pop-eye", the two-year-old Persian housecat pet of one young Miss Betty Jean Welch, 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.
Date:: March 15, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: U.S. Navy sailor holds a kitten during the Army-Navy Maneuvers that took place off the coast of Southern California at the end of 1946. The goal of the war games was to practice two maneuvers: Operation Mountain Goat, an amphibious landing designed to dislodge "enemy" troops, and Operation Oilskin, a landing to cut off "enemy" communications. The Army, Navy, and Marine Corps aircrafts participated in the exercise.
Date:: November and December 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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