Reporter Vern Partlow and Joseph Epstein looking at "Canterbury Tales" book, deemed obscene, circa 1946

Item Overview

Title: Reporter Vern Partlow and Joseph Epstein looking at "Canterbury Tales" book, deemed obscene, circa 1946
Date Created: circa 1946
Date: 1941/1951
Publisher: Los Angeles Daily News
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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Description: Vern Partlow was an American newspaper reporter and folk singer who was blacklisted during the McCarthy era. He composed the popular satirical song "Old Man Atom," which was famously banned during the period.

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Extent: 1 photograph
Dimensions: 10 x 12.5 cm.
Medium: b&w negative

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Genre: news photographs
Names: Los Angeles Daily News (firm) employees
Partlow, Vern, 1910-1981
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Reporters--American--California--Los Angeles
Prohibited books--California--Los Angeles County
Newspaper employees--California--Los Angeles
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