Morgan D. Griffith celebrates a 27-year accident-free career as a chauffeur, Los Angeles, 1935

Title: Morgan D. Griffith celebrates a 27-year accident-free career as a chauffeur, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created: December 16, 1935
Date: 1935-12-16
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Morgan D. Griffith, brother of Griffith Park donator Colonel Griffith, immigrated to Los Angeles from Wales in 1884 to work successfully for the past 27 years as a chauffeur without any accidents.
Photograph appears with the article, "Here's Real Safe Driver," Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec 1935: 5.
Griffith casually sits on a stoop wearing a suit and petting a white dog with one black mark over its eye.
Caption: Text from newspaper caption: Morgan D. Griffith, chauffeur for Supervisor Quinn, who has driven for twenty-seven years without even a minor accident.
Handwritten on negative: 134 134 Griffith- 12/13/35
Text from negative sleeve: 4135 - Morgan Griffith - Chaffeur for Supervisor Quinn 12/13/35 Boy 12 [stamped:] Dec 23 1935

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
Portrait photographs
news photographs
Names: Griffith, Morgan D., b. 1870
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Chauffeurs--California--Los Angeles County
Dogs--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_13161
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hn9hx
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