Postmaster H. B. R. Briggs, J. F. Bourne, Walter Brownsweiger, and an unidentified man by the P.O. boxes, Los Angeles, 1935

Title: Postmaster H. B. R. Briggs, J. F. Bourne, Walter Brownsweiger, and an unidentified man by the P.O. boxes, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created: July-August 1935
Date: 1935-07-08
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Similar photograph appears with the article, "Non-Closing Postoffice Opens On Spring Street," Los Angeles Times, 25 July 1935: A1.
J.F. Bourne kneels on one knee in front of an open mailbox. Postmaster Briggs leans over Bourne's shoulder looking inside the mailbox. Behind them stands another man, and on the other side of the open mailbox another man crouches down. It is not distinguished which of these men is Walter Brownsweiger.
A new branch of the Los Angeles post office opens at 719 South Spring Street.
Caption: Handwritten on negative: 131 131
Text from negative sleeve: 1408 - H.B.R. Briggs J.F. Bourne Walter Brownsweiger opening New P.O. 719 S. [illegible] 7/24/35 [stamped:] Aug 1-1935

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Group portraits
Names: Bourne, J. F.
Brownsweiger, Walter
Briggs, Henry B. R., 1881-1936
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.044199
Latitude: -118.253088
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Postmasters--California--Los Angeles
Mailboxes--California--Los Angeles
Post offices--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_7923
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002dfq22
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