Officers of the Los Angeles Narcotics Squad pose with $35,000 worth of gum opium, Los Angeles, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Officers of the Los Angeles Narcotics Squad pose with $35,000 worth of gum opium, Los Angeles, 1935

Date Created

[circa June, 1935]

Date

1935-06

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

Likely related to the article, "Large Dope Find Made By Officers," Los Angeles Times, 15 Jun. 1935: 2
At center, Narcotics Squad officers Eddie Chitwood, Otto Schlinske and Arthur Mott pose with $35,000 worth of seized gum opium. In front of the them, a table enters frame from the right. A suitcase sits open of the far corner of the table. It is filled with the opium. The three officers stand around it and look to camera while holding some of the opium.

Caption

Handwritten text from negative sleeve: 1020 - Capt. Eddie Chitwood, Det. Lieut. Otto Schlinske, Dt. Lieut. Arthur Mott (all of the Los Angeles Narocotic [sic] squad) With $35,000 worth of gum opium [stamped:] JUL 10 1935
Handwritten on negative: 1020 Capt. Eddie Chitwood, Det. Lieut. Otto Schlinske, De. Lieut. Arthur Mott

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Group portraits

Names

Mott, Arthur, 1896 or 97-1969
Chitwood, Eddie
Los Angeles (Calif.). Police Department
Schlinske, Otto, 1893-1957

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Drug seizures--California--Los Angeles
Detectives--California--Los Angeles
Opium