Police officer Dick Barlow writing a ticket for Dick Russell during a planned race to demonstrate the importance of following traffic laws, Los Angeles, 1947

Title: Police officer Dick Barlow writing a ticket for Dick Russell during a planned race to demonstrate the importance of following traffic laws, Los Angeles, 1947
Date Created: April 1, 1947
Publisher: Los Angeles Daily News
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description: Police officer Dick Barlow writing a ticket for Dick Russell during a planned race between an automobile and a bus. The race was part of a "Don't be April fools, obey Traffic rules" campaign to prove that safe driving always prospers. Russell sped and disobeyed traffic laws in the automobile and almost beat safe driver Frank Lampley's bus full of Chamber of Commerce ladies, until the officer intervened.
Caption: Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Richard Barlow

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Subjects: Ticketing--California--Los Angeles
Traffic regulations--California--Los Angeles
Police--California--Los Angeles
Legal
Names: Barlow, Dick
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local identifier: uclamss_1387_38621-05
38621
ARK: ark:/21198/zz00280rcq
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