Philip Toll Hill, Santa Monica postmaster shakes hands with D. A. Burton Fitts, Los Angeles County, 1935

Title: Philip Toll Hill, Santa Monica postmaster shakes hands with D. A. Burton Fitts, Los Angeles County, 1935
Date Created: August 1, 1935
Date: 1935-08-01
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: English
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description: Names spelled incorrectly on negative and negative sleeve. Correct names are Philip Toll Hill and Buron Fitts.
Philip Toll Hill, new postmaster of Santa Monica, shaking hands with District Attorney Buron Fitts by an office doorway. Hill is looking at Fitts. Fitts is looking off to the side at neither Hill or the camera.
Related to "Post Resigned by Fitts Aide," Los Angeles Times, 02 Aug 1935: A1.
Before becoming postmaster of Santa Monica, Hill was a special investigator and prosecutor of insurance and corporation fraud in District Attorney Fitts' office.
Caption: Handwritten on negative: Phillip Toll Hill; Dist. Atty. Buron Filts.
Partial text on door: 649 DIST[RICT] ATTORN[EY] B[URON F]ITTS. ROB[rest of door is not visible]
Handwritten on negative sleeve: 1321. Phillip Toll Hill, new Postmaster Santa Monica. Dist. Atty. Buron Falts 8/1/35. [stamped:] Aug 8 1935

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Names: Fitts, Buron, 1895-1973
Hill, Philip T. (Toll), 1889-1951
Location: Los Angeles County (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Lawyers--California--Los Angeles County
Postmasters--California--Santa Monica

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_7791
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002dfjhc
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Rights Country: US
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