Ray Pinker and Robert Seares examine a bullet hole in a coat, Los Angeles, 1929-1939
Item Overview
- Title
- Ray Pinker and Robert Seares examine a bullet hole in a coat, Los Angeles, 1929-1939
- Date Created
- [between 1929-1939]
- Date
- 1929/1939
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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For nearly 40 years Ray Pinker worked for the Los Angeles Police Scientific Investigation Division, the first police forensic lab in the country. The Dragnet character "Raymond Pinker" was named after him. He worked on numerous famous cases, including the Black Dahlia case. Robert Seares would later become Pasadena's chief of police.
Police chemist Ray Pinker, (left) and Robert Seares examine a bullet hole in a coat. - Caption
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Handwritten on negative: L to R, Ray Pinkert [sic], Robert Seares
Text from negative sleeve: Pinker, Pay [sic], police
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
forensic photographs - Names
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Pinker, Ray, 1904-1979
Seares, Robert S., 1909-1998 - Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
- Police--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_11281
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002h994r
- 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 .