Cooper Arms Apartments, view of fire escapes from street level, Long Beach, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Cooper Arms Apartments, view of fire escapes from street level, Long Beach, 1935

Date Created

August 21, 1935

Date

1935-08-21

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Photograph of the Cooper Arms Apartments (455 E Ocean Blvd.), view of the building's fire escapes from street level. The apartments were the home of Gladys Glena Fair, murder victim.
Related to Los Angeles Times article, "Woman Dies by Bullet: Found Slain in Bathtub Visitor to Rooms of Naval Aide at Long Beach Hunted by Police," 21 Aug. 1935: 3.

Caption

Written on negative: Fire escape Cooper Arms Apt, Long Beach, 8-21-35.
Text from negative sleeve: 1742. Florence Boykin Dowling, Glenda [sic] Fair's apt., Cooper Arms firescape [sic], Det Sgt Sibley of Long Beach, Jack Boykin, Capt Owen Murphy, Det Sgt Woodruff of Long Beach. Glenda [sic] Fair murder in Long Beach, 8/21/35. [Stamped:] Aug 27 1935.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
forensic photographs

Names

Cooper Arms Apartments (Long Beach, Calif.)
Fair, Gladys Glena Smith, 1898-1935

Location

Long Beach (Calif.)

Longitude

33.767025

Latitude

-118.186556

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Criminal investigations--California--Long Beach
Apartment houses--California--Long Beach
Homicides--California--Long Beach