Dwight Baker at zoning bribery trial with his attorney J. Edwin Simpson, Los Angeles, 1938

Title: Dwight Baker at zoning bribery trial with his attorney J. Edwin Simpson, Los Angeles, 1938
Photographer: Wallace, Gordon Charles, 1909-1992
Date Created: December 18, 1938
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Dwight Baker (left) and J. Edwin Simpson (right) appear in court, where Baker and Councilman Howard Davis answered to bribery charges amid a "spot zoning" scandal.
Caption: Handwritten on negative: Dwight Baker, J. E. Simpson - atty
Text from negative sleeve: 15244--- Dwight Baker (real estate man-bribery + conspiracy charges) J. E. Simpson---Indictment 12/18/38 [stamped:] DEC _9 1938; L.A. Times Photo By Gordon Wallace

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Subjects: Lawyers--California--Los Angeles
Real estate developers--California--Los Angeles County
Names: Simpson, J. Edwin, (John Edwin), b. 1889 or 90
Baker, Dwight
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local identifier: uclamss_1429_11974
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002h8v20
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Rights statement: copyrighted
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Rights Country: US
Funding Note: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
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