Portrait of John "Chicken Johnny" Brinkley, native of Catalina Island, ca.1885

Photographic portrait of John "Chicken Johnny" Brinkley, native of Catalina Island, ca.1885. Mr. Brinkley stands on the stone front step of a wooden shack with his hat in his left hand. A pan can be seen hung from the outside wall to the right, beneath which a pile of tin cans can be seen. Mr. Brinkley is bald with what remaining hair he has at the side close-cropped like his beard. A few other stones sit to the left of his front step. He had only been off the island once in his lifetime, and worked for Shatto.