Postmaster Henry B. R. Briggs on his first day in office, Los Angeles, 1934
Item Overview
- Title
- Postmaster Henry B. R. Briggs on his first day in office, Los Angeles, 1934
- Date Created
- February 1, 1934
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Henry B. R. Briggs, Postmaster of Los Angeles, on the day he was sworn into office
Henry B. R. Briggs was the Postmaster of Los Angeles from February 1, 1934 to his death (from pneumonia) on September 28, 1936. Prior to that, he was the publisher and editor of the Los Angeles Record. J. F. Bourne, a long-term postal employee, is mentioned in Los Angeles Times coverage of post office news between 1910 and 1938. - Caption
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Handwritten on negative: H.B.R. Briggs
Text from negative sleeve: Briggs, H.B.R. Postmaster
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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Portrait photographs
cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Subjects
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Government
Postmasters--California--Los Angeles
People - Names
- Briggs, Henry B. R., 1881-1936
- Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local identifier
- uclamss_1429_1263
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002dbppj
- 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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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .