Prince Ucon pretends to bite the bars of his jail cell, Lincoln Heights, 1936
Item Overview
- Title
- Prince Ucon pretends to bite the bars of his jail cell, Lincoln Heights, 1936
- Date Created
- January 31, 1936
- Date
- 1936-01-31
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Prince Ucon, Algerian Wonder Worker, The Man Who Defies Death, proclaimed himself to be the toughest prisoner the jail has ever had and proceeded to show the officers present by eating a series of old keys, bullets, sticking safety pins through his cheeks and shaving with a blowtorch. Following his thirty day conviction he proclaimed to the court, "Judge, do I have to eat that jail food that long or can I have some bolts occasionally - I'm liable to start chewing on the bars unless they give me my iron."
From the inside of a cell Prince Ucon leans to the side and bites down on the bar of his cell door.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Razor Blade Menu Eaten," Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan 1936: A2.
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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Ucon, Prince, b. 1894
Lincoln Heights Jail - Location
- Lincoln Heights (Los Angeles, Calif.)
- Longitude
- 34.077472
- Latitude
- -118.224875
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Turbans--California--Lincoln Heights
Stunt performers--California--Lincoln Heights
Tramps--American--California--Lincoln Heights
Prisoners--California--Lincoln Heights
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_12431
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002hmfbt
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
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- Rights Holder
- The Regents of the University of California
- 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 .