Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection / Subject: Birds--California - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Cleo the canary was used to measure levels of carbon monoxide in tunnels, which can prove to be very dangerous to those who are more susceptible to the gas. Company secretary of the testing facility Colonial Mutual Compensation Insurance Company John P. McNabb will be submitting the test results to the Health Department and other sectors.
Date:: March 11, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Two convicted murderers of Folsom State Prison rescued a baby linnet and a newborn kitten from hunger and malnutrition and nursed them back to health. The cat and bird live in the prison's print shop in complete harmony.
Date:: March 5, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph appears with the article, "Evangelist's Birthday Celebrated," Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct 1926: 2.
Date:: October 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The yacht's owner and captain, G. Allan Hancock, was a millionaire and prominent figure in Los Angeles oil industry. Hancock commissioned several large yachts for scientific expeditions up and down the west coast. John Garth joined a 1931 exposition as a ship musician playing cello; he was so take by his experience that he earned a Ph.D in zoology in 1941, participated in 10 major Hancock expeditions and was a professor of biological sciences at the University of Southern California for more than 30 years. W. Charles Swett was a contractor who participated in many or all of Hancock's expeditions in various capacities, including photographer.
Date:: February 29, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Two convicted murderers of Folsom State Prison rescued a baby linnet and a newborn kitten from hunger and malnutrition and nursed them back to health. The cat and bird live in the prison's print shop in complete harmony.
Date:: March 5, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Captain Edward Hyde of the Broadbill patrols the ocean on behalf of the Fish and Game Commission to keep fishermen from participating in illegal activity.
Date:: December 8, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph appears with the article, “Feathered, Friend Greeted: CANARY-BREEDING HOBBY AIDS AMERICAN PURSES,” Los Angeles Times, 28 Jul. 1935: 16.
Date:: July 28, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph appears in the Los Angeles Times, 01 Feb 1936: A5, under heading, "Catholic Club Hostesses Plan Party."
Date:: February 1, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph appears with the article, "Cat and Bird in Prison Form Odd Attachment," Los Angeles Times, 05 Mar. 1936: A1.
Date:: March 5, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: When Mrs. Wedemeyer's German bullfinch laid her first batch of eggs they survived even though the mother abandoned the nest. But when she laid more eggs and stopped sitting on them Mrs. Wedemeyer brought in a female canary to do the job for the bullfinch.
Date:: September 13, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Browse items