Criminologist Frank Gompert inspects a pistol while Norris Stensland watches, [Los Angeles], about 1931

Item Overview

Title

Criminologist Frank Gompert inspects a pistol while Norris Stensland watches, [Los Angeles], about 1931

Date Created

[circa 1931]

Date

1931

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

Text from negative sleeve: STENSLAND, NORRIS DEP. SHERRIF [sic] 1931
Frank Gompert sits, off-center to the right, and hunches over a small table and microscope. He leans towards the left as he holds a pistol beneath the microscope. Below him and on the table sits a pile of bullets and casings, on or near their evidence sleeves. Behind and to the left of Frank Gompert, Norris Stensland sits and watches Frank Gompert handle the small firearm. At left, a typewriter and another pistol sit on the desk next to Norris Stensland. The rest of the laboratory occupies the background.

Caption

Handwritten on negative: Norris Stensland - Frank B. Gompert

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
cellulose nitrate film

Names

Los Angeles (Calif.). Police Department
Stensland, Norris Gilbert, 1891-1956
Gompert, Frank Brainard, 1894-1978

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Firearms
Evidence (law)
Laboratories--California--Los Angeles
Microscopes
Police--California--Los Angeles
Criminal investigations--California--Los Angeles