Genre: cellulose nitrate film and forensic photographs / Language: No linguistic content / Resource Type: still image / Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Ledger documenting the purchase of sodium arsenate for 10 cents by Elmer M. Archer at the Adams Pharmacy in Santa Monica on January 24, 1926. Archer purchased the poison under the name Joe Jacks. Archer was in love with the newlywed Olive Orr Brugen-Schmidt and tried to convince her to poison her new husband, W. H. Bowers.
Date:: March 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Address book of Dr. Leonard Siever, open to p. 97 with last names beginning with the letter "M."
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Gettle was kidnapped from his ranch home in Arcadia on the night of May 9th during a housewarming party, then held in a La Crescenta house by a gang consisting of three men and two women. Police foiled their ransom plot and rescued Gettle on May 14th, following clues recorded on a dictagraph placed on the telephone conversations of a suspected bank robber.
Date:: May 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Photograph of the Long Beach apartment belonging to Gladys Glena Fair (Cooper Arms Apartments, 455 E Ocean Blvd.), murder victim. A man's arm (probably a detective's arm) is partially viewed behind the open door.
Date:: August 21, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: In 1935, William Hardy confessed to the beating of his half-sister Helen Katherine Williams with a hammer. The photograph depicts Hardy in handcuffs retracing the event with investigators,
Date:: February 11, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: In 1935, William Hardy confessed to the beating of his half-sister Helen Katherine Williams with a hammer. The photograph depicts Hardy in handcuffs retracing the event with investigators,
Date:: February 11, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View into the cluttered bedroom and bathroom of the house of Luella Pearl Hammer where kidnapping victim Mary Skeele was held.
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Textured black leather bag with handle and clasp at top, flat bottom, on edge of round table with bookcase in background. Bag is wrapped with 2 thin ropes and affixed with address label from Fred W. Wolf to Alfred Allen, and shipping label marked Collect.
Date:: December, 1920
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph corresponds to article, "Japanese Married Woman and Lover Confess Murder and Burial of Child," Los Angeles Times, 8 Jun. 1932: A2.
Date:: June 7, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of the Cooper Arms Apartments (455 E Ocean Blvd.), view of the building's fire escapes from street level. The apartments were the home of Gladys Glena Fair, murder victim.
Date:: August 21, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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