Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection / Subject: Handguns - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Photograph of Mrs. Barbara Whittaker, police Captain R. R. McDonald, Mrs. Louise Ward Watkins, Mrs. Edward M. Kromer, and Mrs. Mable Patton at the Los Angeles Police Revolver range in Elysian Park. The women, wearing hats and dresses, aim their pistols at unseen targets, while Captain McDonald assists Mrs. Watkins with her aim.
Date:: August 23, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Mexican consul Ricardo Hill attends as General Saturnino Cedillo presents dueling pistols to Sherriff James E. Davis at a luncheon at the police pistol range in Elysian Park (now the Los Angeles Police Revolver and Athletic Club).
Date:: Decmber 4, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A similar photograph appears with Los Angeles Times article "Ghost Gang Relic Found: Forgotten Revolver Grows in Tree," November 16, 1931, describing how bandit Charley Jack simulated a gang of attackers along the Mammoth Trail by hiding guns and coats in tree branches; the son of an attack victim later discovered an abandoned gun grown into a tree
Date:: 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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