Spencer Moxley, ballisitics expert for the Los Angeles Police Department, Los Angeles, 1931

Title: Spencer Moxley, ballisitics expert for the Los Angeles Police Department, Los Angeles, 1931
Date Created: 1931
Date: 1931
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description: Misidentified in some articles as Spencer A. Moxley.
Spencer Moxley sits behind a desk. About 20 bullets in various conditions sit in front of him on a handkerchief. Handwritten notes are around the handkerchief. Moxley is examining a bullet, holding it in both hands. An ashtray resembling a tire sits by his left elbow. A photograph of a room is propped up on the ashtray.
Caption: Handwritten on negative: Spencer Moxley
Text on negative sleeve: Maxley, Spencer; Ballistics Expert 1931 [the "a" in Maxley has been overwritten with an "o" to read Moxley, Spencer]

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Moxley, Spencer (Spencer Benjamin), 1904-1951
Los Angeles (Calif.). Police Department
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Forensic ballistics
Ashtrays
Bullets
Police--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_6447
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002cwnxf
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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
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