Robert L. Gordon, vice president of Bank of America, speaks with Jack Bugas after robbery, Los Angeles, 1936
Item Overview
- Title
- Robert L. Gordon, vice president of Bank of America, speaks with Jack Bugas after robbery, Los Angeles, 1936
- Date Created
- March 2, 1936
- Date
- 1936-03-02
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Robert L. Gordon, left, appears to be in conversation with Jack Bugas, who is seated at a desk.
This photograph is likely related to the article, “Hollywood Bank Robbed,” Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar 1936: 3.
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
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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
Handwritten on negative: bank Robbery - Melrose + Bronson Robert L. Gordon - Vice Pres Bank of America Jack Bugas
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Names
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Bugas, Jack
Gordon, Robert L. (Robert Lashbrook), 1904-1978 - Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Longitude
- 34.083496
- Latitude
- -118.317909
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Bank robberies--California--Los Angeles
Bankers--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002hmgdb
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- 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
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Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
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 .