Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Language: Chinese / Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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:: This photograph appears with the article, "Drive Away Evil Spirits: Chinatown Begins Frolic of New Year Observance," Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 1936: A3.
Date:: [circa January 24, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Blackmail letters addressed to R. W. Pridham, former president of the chamber of commerce. Beginning of second page of second letter: "matter. Your chauffeur played and showed no skill in driving around the block and parking in the ally way and running to the drug store with his hat off, one of us followed him around a bit, you must show more intelligence than that."
Date:: March, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: From the postcard: Mr. Geroge McIntire, Hotel Pennsylvania, New York City... NOT AT HOTEL PENNSYLVANIA [stamped:]
Date:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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