Officer George Stinson sings, Los Angeles, 1935
Item Overview
- Title
- Officer George Stinson sings, Los Angeles, 1935
- Date Created
- July 1935
- Date
- 1935-07
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Photograph appears with the article, "Policeman Becoming Good-Will Ambassador," Los Angeles Times, 08 July 1935: A1.
In uniform, Stinson holds his hand close to his head and his mouth agape.
Motorcycle patrolman George Stinson had his musical education paid for him by Mme. Schumann-Heink after she heard his voice. He is the patrol's unofficial goodwill ambassador and has performed at the Hollywood Bowl. - Caption
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Handwritten on negative: George Stinson
Text from negative sleeve: 1100 - George Stinson State Police Officer 7-7-35 [stamped:] Jul 17 1935
Text from newspaper caption: George Stinson, the California Highway Patrol's singing motorcycle officer, exercises his vocal organs while practicing for appearances before civic gatherings and over the radio.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Names
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Stinson, George
California Highway Patrol - Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Singers
Police--California--Los Angeles
Uniforms
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_7423
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002df3tr
- 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 .