J.A. (Foghorn) Murphy, circa 1930-1939
Item Overview
- Title
- J.A. (Foghorn) Murphy, circa 1930-1939
- Date Created
- [between 1930-1939]
- Date
- 1930/1939
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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J.A. (Foghorn) Murphy, from San Francisco, was a storyteller, entrepreneur, politician and local legend in Los Angeles and San Francisco, his home town. He may have gotten his nickname during his early career as a baseball announcer.
Side view of J.A. (Foghorn) Murphy in jacket and tie, seated between two unidentified women. Also known as John A. Foghorn Murphy and Foghorn Murphy. - Caption
- Text from negative sleeve: 2115, Fog Horn J.A. Murphy, well-known Irish Los Angeleno, wholesale liquor dealer, politician, radio man?, once called baseball games (pre-radio), [stamped:] Sep 1935
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Names
- Murphy, J. A. (John A.), 1890-1970
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
- People
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_8527
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002dgdwk
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- 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 .