Last photo taken of C. C. Julian, oil fraudster, Shanghai, 1935 (copy photo, original photo date circa 1934)

Item Overview

Title

Last photo taken of C. C. Julian, oil fraudster, Shanghai, 1935 (copy photo, original photo date circa 1934)

Date Created

September 14, 1935

Date

1935-09-14

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

C. C. Julian was an oil promoter who fled to Shanghai in 1933 to escape prosecution for mail fraud. In March 1934 he committed suicide.
This photograph appears in "Of C. C. Julian: the Last Days," Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep 1935: G16.
Copy photo
C. C. Julian sits in a rickshaw, legs crossed, hands in lap, while an unidentified rickshaw driver holds the rickshaw and is looking at the camera. Behind him stands an unidentified Indian man, and behind the rickshaw stands another unidentified man in western clothing. Both western men wear brimmed hats and suits. The rickshaw driver is wearing a loose baggy jacket and loose pants bound at the ankles. The Indian man wears a turban and possibly a uniform of some kind.

Caption

Handwritten on negative: Last Photo C. C. Julian in China 9/14/35
Handwritten on negative sleeve: 2128. C. C. Julian. (copy of) in China 9-14-35 [stamped:] Sep 18 1935

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
cellulose nitrate film

Names

Julian, C. C. (Courtney Chauncey), 1885-1934

Location

Shanghai (China)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Criminals--California--Los Angeles
Fraud--California--Los Angeles
Oil industries--California
Rickshaw men
Rickshaws
Suicides