Chief of the L.A.P.D. James E. Davis speaks with Capt. William F. Hynes in his office, circa 1934.
Item Overview
- Title
- Chief of the L.A.P.D. James E. Davis speaks with Capt. William F. Hynes in his office, circa 1934.
- Date Created
- 1934?
- Date
- 1934
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Daily News
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Notes
- Description
- A photograph of Capt. William Hynes, left, in the office of the Chief of Police, James Edgar Davis, right. James E. Davis was the Chief of Police in Los Angeles from 1926-1931, and again from 1933-1939. When he first served in 1926, he was the youngest police chief in Los Angeles history, at age 37.William F. Hynes was a Captain of detectives for the L.A.P.D., and engaged in "busting" Communist, "Red", and/or "radical" activities in Los Angeles. At the time of this photo, Hynes would have likely been the head of the L.A.P.D.'s intelligence bureau, a position he held from 1927 until the bureau was dissolved in 1938.
- Caption
- Davis, James Edgar, Ch of Police; Hynes, Bill, Capt of Police.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Names
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Hynes, William
Davis, James E., d.1949 - Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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People
Government
Police--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz0025430d
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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