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Description
A young boy poses for a Press Herald photographer with his pet raccoon on a leash in one hand and food for the animal in the other.
Pet raccoons started becoming popular in the 1920s; the paper featured several stories and photographs of Mainers' with the formerly wild animals as pets. In August of 1929, in the "Lost and Found" section of the Evening Express, Miss Annie Whittier requested help finding her 20-pound raccoon that had gone missing on Riverside Street in Portland, with a generous reward offered. Then President Calvin Coolidge also had a pet raccoon, Rebecca, who lived in the White House and may have fueled public interest.
About This Item
- Title: Young child with a raccoon on a leash, ca. 1925
- Creation Date: circa 1925
- Subject Date: circa 1925
- Location: ME
- Media: Glass negative
- Local Code: Coll. 1949, 2005.061.3056
- Collection: Portland Press Herald glass negative collection
- Object Type: Image
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