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Officer Snodgrass: 1929
Submitted by Ken on Tue, 08/28/2007 - 12:21pm.
Officer Snodgrass of the White House police force holds a captured opossum that strayed onto White House grounds, May 6, 1929. From the National Photo Company collection. View full image.
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Scary little things,
Submitted by Jen on Sat, 09/29/2007 - 8:20pm.
Scary little things, opossums. Eek.
Under Coolidge
Submitted by Brent on Tue, 08/28/2007 - 12:46pm.
Calvin Coolidge and his family would probably have been made this opossum into a family pet. The Coolidges seem to have kept quite a menagerie of fairly tame animals during their time at the White House.
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