Elton Lady talking to officers and reporters after robbery, Los Angeles, 1936

Title: Elton Lady talking to officers and reporters after robbery, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created: March 2, 1936
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: This photograph is likely related to the article, “Hollywood Bank Robbed,” Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar 1936: 3.
Elton lady, center, stands with his arms folded while speaking to unidentified police officers and reporters after a bank robbery. Spectators can be seen through the window in the background.
Three men, armed with machine guns, robbed the Bank of America on Melrose and Bronson shortly before it closed on March 2nd. No one was physically injured and the bandits escaped with $6,100.
Caption: Handwritten on negative: Bank Robbery - Melrose + Bronson Elton Lady - [illegible] mgr talking to officers and reporters
Text from negative sleeve: 3484-- Leon Bone Bank (Melrose and Bronson) Fingerprint man Bank Robbery - Melrose and Bronson 3/2/36 [stamped:] MAR 4 1936

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local identifier: uclamss_1429_12460
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hmgb9
Manifest url

Rights statement: copyrighted
Rights contact: UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Rights Holder: The Regents of the University of California
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.
License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .