Thirty-year police photographer Florentin Florentin, Los Angeles, 1936

Title: Thirty-year police photographer Florentin Florentin, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created: February 7, 1936
Date: 1936-02-07
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Photograph appears with the article, " "Thirty Years of Mugs;" - That's Officer's Boast," Los Angeles Times, 08 Feb 1936: 12.
French-born police photographer Florentin Florentin estimates that he has photographed around 219, 000 criminals since his allotment to the position on February 6, 1906, including hammer murderess Clara Phillips, bootlegger Mile-Away Thomas and murderer Bluebeard Watson.
Caption: Handwritten on negative: Florentin Florentin 2-6-36
Text from negative sleeve: 3554 - Florentin Florentin 30 yrs a police photographer 2-6-36 [stamped:] Feb 7 - 1936
Text from newspaper caption: Florentin Florentin

Genre: news photographs
Portrait photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Names: Florentin, Florentin, 1876-1961
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Portrait photographs
Police--California--Los Angeles
Photographers--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
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Rights Country: US
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