Gerry Cooke, Western Union messenger, is dispatched to feed pigeons in Pershing Square, Los Angeles, 1938

Item Overview

Title

Gerry Cooke, Western Union messenger, is dispatched to feed pigeons in Pershing Square, Los Angeles, 1938

Photographer

Jakobsen, Robert Anders, 1915-1970

Date Created

[circa December, 1938]

Date

1938-12

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

At right, Gerry Cooke, a Western Union messenger, stands, facing left, in Pershing Square. He holds a bag in one hand and drops seed onto the ground with the other. He looks down towards the few pigeons on the ground at left. Behind Gerry Cooke, a line of benches stretches across the image. A few people sit on the benches with their backs to camera and passersby look towards the messenger. Buildings surrounding the square rise in the distance.
This photograph appears in the photospread, “’Call a Messenger!,’” Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 1938: F8

Caption

Text from newspaper caption: "Send messenger No. 61 Gerry Cooke, to Pershing Square-- feed pigeons 2:30 p.m. daily until further notice." [Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 1938: F8]

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
cellulose nitrate film

Names

Western Union Telegraph Company
Cooke, Gerry

Location

Downtown (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Messengers--California--Los Angeles
Pigeons--California
Pershing Square (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Animal feeding--California--Los Angeles