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James T. Foster, police officer, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: An article from this time recounts how Foster attempted to apprehend a burglar. “Man Captured on roof liked to burglaries,” Los Angeles Times, 9 Jul. 1935: A8.
Date:: July 8, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Bert Wallis, police captain, smoking pipe and writing, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:: Los Angeles Police Department Captain Bert Wallis at desk, holding a sheet in one hand and writing with a fountain pen in a record book with the other. A pipe is in his mouth.
Date:: [October, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

John Moore stands while Detective Lieutenant F. L. McGlinchey reads something to him and another man writes in his notepad, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Unidentified detective may by Verne Miller, who was McGlinchey's partner in 1936.
Date:: July 11, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Captain Bert Wallis filling out ledger, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Captain Bert Wallis with pipe in his mouth writing in ledger at his desk.
Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Elizabeth Fiske of the Los Angeles Police Department, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:: Portrait photograph of Elizabeth H. Fiske. Photograph studio identified on the frame as the Orpheum Studio at 8281/4 Broadway, Los Angeles,
Date:: [circa may 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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A. B. Murchison testifies during Aimee Semple McPherson's preliminary hearing, Los Angeles, circa 1926

Description:: At center, A. B. Murchison sits on the witness stand during the preliminary trial regarding Aimee Semple McPherson's disappearance. He sits facing towards the right and looks at a map unfolded in front of him. Two lawyers stand to the left of the witness box. Behind and to the right of Murchison, Judge Blake sits up at the bench and looks down towards the witness. In the foreground at right, a few lawyers sit at the counsel's table.
Date:: [circa 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Mexican pistol teams as guests of Los Angeles Police at the Elysian Park target range, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Reported in: “Davis fetes marksmen: Mexican pistol teams visit police target range at Elysian Park,” Los Angeles Times, 24 Jul. 1935: A3.
Date:: July 24, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Captain Bert Wallis, John Binan, and Ollie Kriewald, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Photograph related to the article, "Rich Woman Found Slain: Believed Victim of Robbers, Mrs. Louise Appier's Beaten Body Discovered by Apartment Tenant." Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 1935.
Date:: March 20, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Thomas Dugger being questioned by detectives, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:: Detectives and Captain questioning Thomas Dugger about picture. Thomas Dugger was convicted of 11 felonies and ultimately hung for his crimes in San Quentin. He was convicted of mainly assaulting women, and his nick name was "ape man" because of his shoulders and gnarled hands and black eyes.
Date:: 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Detective Lieutenant F. L. McGlinchey, Lou Daro, Ed M. Crum, Det. Lt. L. E. Sanderson, and Captain E. A. Frendenberg, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: From left to right: Det. Lt. F. L. McGlinchey (seated), Lou Daro (seated), Ed M. Crum, Det. Lt. L. E. Sanderson, Capt. E. A. Frendenberg (seated)
Date:: July 11, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Detective Lieutenant Jack Malina entering the Grand Jury room, Los Angeles, 1932

Description:: Jack Malina was a policeman assigned to the robbery detail.
Date:: 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Detective Lieutenant Ray Giese (left) questions William Burns, beer parlor proprietor, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Related to "Man Killed in Fight at Beer Parlor," Los Angeles Times, 24 Jul 1935: A3.
Date:: July 26, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Panorama (right half) of a police inspection at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, 1927

Description:: For left half of panorama, see Item Ark: 21198/zz002cw98s
Date:: [May 2, 1927]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Captain Bert Wallis examining butt of rifle, Los Angeles, 1930s

Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Detective Lieutenant Spear receives attempted burglary suspect Jean Colby, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Detective Lieutenant Spear receives attempted burglary suspect Jean Colby from two unidentified uniformed police officers. Spear has a cigar in his mouth. The officer holding Colby's left arm holds a cigarette in his left hand. A map of the Central Police Division hangs on the wall besides Spear.
Date:: August 20, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Maurice Fruchtman, arrested for attempted murder, and Detective Lieutenant Miles Ledbetter, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Related to "Suit Leads to Stabbing: City Prosecuter Aide Wounded," Los Angeles Times, 09 Jul 1935: A1.
Date:: July 8, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Police chief Roy Steckel shakes hands with General Eoin O'Duffy, police commissioner of the Irish Free State, Los Angeles, 1932

Description:: This photograph appears with the article, "In Ireland, Begorrah a Cop's a Cop and Not a Gun, Says O'Duffy," Los Angeles Times, 28 Jul 1932: A1.
Date:: July 27, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Captain Bert Wallis and unidentified man, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Bert Wallace (left) seated with unidentified man (right).
Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

J. P. Lyons, LAPD deputy chief, 1929

Description:: Deputy Chief J.P. Lyons of the Los Angeles Police Department standing possibly in a courthouse and holding his hat above his head. Behind him is a partition glass with a sign reading "AND JURY, 607."
Date:: 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Police officers and youths during disturbance near Los Angeles Manual Arts High School, 1967

Date:: October 20, 1967
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Chase, Harry
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Police officers on trial for bribery, Harry M. Hill, Leonard F. Sale and Thomas B. Washburn, Los Angeles, 1929

Description:: Police officers on trial for accepting bribes, from left: Harry M. Hill, Leonard F. Sale and Thomas B. Washburn. Reported in "Three Policemen Arrested on Indictments for Accepting Bribes: SHERIFF SEEKS ANOTHER TRIO Heavy Guard Placed Around Home of Informer Machine-Gun Auto Feared Seeking McDonald Grand Jury Votes True Bills in Bootleg Graft," Los Angele Times, 12 Sep. 1929: A2.
Date:: 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Group portrait of five police officers, four of whom captured bank robbers, Los Angeles, 1925

Description:: Oscar Bayer (sitting on right) next to Bertrand M. Steventon. Standing left to right are Claude R. Weaver, Charles Meyers and Jack A. Stambler. Photo appears with article "CITY COMBED FOR BANDITS IN DEADLY GUN BATTLE: One Killed, Four Shot as Bank Robbery Ends in Pistol Battle Through Streets," Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 1925: 1. Image published in newspaper matted out Charles Meyers. The men are in a a medics office.
Date:: August, 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Prohibition officer George Contreras with two unidentified men, Los Angeles, circa 1920

Description:: Los Angeles prohibition enforcement officer George Contreras sitting at his desk, with two other unidentified men.
Date:: [circa 1920]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Police officer Ray Cottle and Captain Clem Peoples reveal the old jail cell door, Los Angeles, 1929

Description:: Photograph appears with the article "BURIED BASTILLE DOORS OPENED AGAIN: Office Alterations Expose Barriers Used Fifty Years Ago," Los Angeles Times, 04 Dec. 1929: A11.
Date:: December 3, 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Barbara Payton and attorney Milton Golden (center-left) at the actress' arraignment for check fraud, Los Angeles, 1955

Description:: (CAPTION) IRKED – Barbara Payton, 28, former actress, holds her nose as she inspects summons with her attorney, Milton Golden. Paper involves suit in which her former mate seeks to bar her from taking son out of U.S.
Date:: December 1, 1955
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Mexican Consul Ricardo G. Hill welcomed by city officials, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: From the far left, front row: Congressman Benjamin Hill, Jr., Chief of Police James E. Davis, and new Mexican Consul Ricardo G. Hill. They post for a photograph with a group of city officials.
Date:: August, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Harry A. Doyle is promoted to deputy chief, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Lieutenant Harry A. Doyle is succeeding H. A. Barlow as inspector of the police and promoted to command of the personnel bureau as acting deputy chief.
Date:: August 30, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Los Angeles police remove Felipe Rojas from police car to ambulance stretcher after shooting spree in Chinese produce company, 1949

Date:: February 24, 1949
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Los Angeles Vice Squad Capt. W. E. Weyerman sitting at his desk, Los Angeles, 1929

Description:: Photo appears with article "Capt. Weverman Succeeds Plummer in "Hot Spot" At Central Station," Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb 1929: 8.
Date:: [circa February 11, 1929]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Three plain-clothed police men crouched behind a car aiming their guns, Los Angeles, circa 1925

Description:: Three plain-clothed police men are crouched behind an unmarked Chrysler police car aiming their guns. The two men closest to the camera each wield machine guns of differing lengths. The man closest to the camera is Officer Oscar Bayer. The man furthest from the camera, nearly standing straight up, holds a revolver. The car's license plate reads "E17652." The car is parked in a lot with two billboards stationed. The billboard on the left reads "More Room - More Comfort More Value," advertising Dodge Brothers Motor Cars. The billboard on the right is an advertisement for Lucky Strike Cigarettes.
Date:: 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Group portrait of five police officers, four of whom captured bank robbers, Los Angeles, 1925

Description:: Oscar Bayer (sitting on right) next to Bertrand M. Steventon. Standing left to right are Claude R. Weaver, Charles Meyers and Jack A. Stambler. Image published in newspaper matted out Charles Meyers. The men are in a medics office.
Date:: [between August-September 1925]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

I. W. Birnbaum, Police Commissioner, Los Angeles, 1923

Description:: I. W. Birnbaum seated on a wicker garden bench beside potted plants.
Date:: 1923
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Policemen with the briefcase bomb used in an attempted bank robbery, Los Angeles, 1931

Description:: Two Los Angeles policemen displaying the briefcase bomb Timothy P. Blevins used in an attempted bank robbery. A message is written on the inner lid of the box: "The black owl will [?] you death! Don't [?]"
Date:: December 31, 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Reenactment of a robbery at Belvedere State Bank, Belvedere Heights (Los Angeles), 1923

Description:: Police officers and bank staff reenacting the August 21, 1923 robbery of Belvedere State Bank in East Los Angeles.
Date:: August 21, 1923
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Police detective E. Raymond Cato and two other men posing with guns, Los Angeles, circa 1925

Description:: Police detective E. Raymond Cato and two other men posing with guns. They are standing in front of a gun rack.
Date:: [circa 1925]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Martin C. Neuner is named president of police commission and sworn in with fellow commission members, Los Angeles, 1933-1934

Description:: The Mayor's new Police Commission is sworn in by City Clerk Dominguez.
Date:: 1933-1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Sargent A. C. Harm, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Harm poses for a photograph with a book in his hand, in uniform.
Date:: November 6, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Police captain David L. Adams holds a badge, Los Angeles, [1923?]

Description:: Possibly related to "Police Captain is Honored: Twenty Years of Service by David L. Adams Commemorated by Gift from Associates," Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec 1923: II14.
Date:: [circa December 25, 1923?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Captain Robert F. Underwood and Detective Lieutenant Richard B. McCreadie break down a door, Los Angeles, 1939

Description:: Captain Underwood holds a shotgun while Det. Lt. McCreadie kicks at the door with his foot, smoking a cigar.
Date:: January 13, 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Police Captain W. M. Littell with Stanley Bell and other children from Hollenbeck Heights, Hollenbeck Station, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Police Captain W. M. Littell with seventeen underprivileged boys of varied ages, all from Hollenbeck Heights. Littell kneels in front of Stanley Bell and holds up the boy's Exposition guest badge. Three other children wear or hold their badges. Seen in the background is an advertisement reading, in part: "Annual Christmas Turkey Shoot, Elysian Park..." Photographed in the locker room at Hollenbeck Police Station.
Date:: August 20, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Judge Newcomb Condee, and police women Rose Pickerel and Alla Gilmore hold dance tickets, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: “Rose Pickerel; 1st woman to walk L.A. beat,” Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 1987: C16.
Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

P. D. Ackerman, fingerprinting a gun from the Julia Graham suicide case, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: P. D. Ackerman is sitting behind a desk, applying fingerprint powder with a brush onto one of three guns found on the site of Julia Graham's suicide. Two candlestick phones are on a table next to him. Part of a calendar for July 1935 can be seen on the wall behind him. Underneath a clear protective desk cover, there appear to be sheets of phone numbers to various police agencies.
Date:: July 15, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Howard L. Barlow, L.A.P.D acting Deputy Chief Of Police, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Refer to article, "High Police Post Filled." Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug 1935: 11.
Date:: Aug 12, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Chief James Davis pins a badge to William Adolph, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Common Council member of London William Adolph will someday be Lord Mayor of the city but on this day maintains the honor of membership in Chief Davis's special auxiliary forces.
Date:: August 22, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

James W. McKelvey, suspect in an assault with a deadly weapon, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Related to "Assailant's Face Unseen," Los Angeles Times, 26 Jul 1935: 3.
Date:: July 25, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Captain Bert Massey, LAPD officer and Liquor Control Act administrator in Los Angeles County, in court, Los Angeles, 1935?

Description:: Captain Bert Massey, a Los Angeles Police Department officer who also served as administrator of the Liquor Control Act in Los Angeles County, seated at the head of a table in the center of the photo, with two women at each side of the table. Behind Massey is a man in a light-colored suit, seated in a chair. Behind a bench in the background are Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney H. Leslie Wildey on the left and a person whose head is obscured by Massey's. This photograph was possibly taken during a California State Senate committee's July 1935 investigation of favoritism that existed in the issuance of liquor licenses in Los Angeles County. Wildey was appointed to act as an observer during the hearings and report to the grand jury any information that indicated criminal activities.
Date:: [July, 1935?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Officer Joseph Lundrigan saves a Christmas shopper from oncoming traffic, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Officer Lundrigan, normally stationed at Fifth and Olive streets, saved an unidentified woman from being struck by a speeding ambulance, which had already been carrying a victim of a hit and run. Lundrigan was quoted as saying, "Aw, it was nothing."
Date:: December 16, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Los Angeles Police Department at the La Fiesta de Los Angeles parade, Los Angeles, 1931

Description:: This photograph was likely taken on September 4, 1931, during the Parade of Four Flags. 200,000 spectators gathered to watch the Parade on opening day of la Fiesta de Los Angeles. The parade route was along Figueroa St, between Olympic Blvd and Washington Blvd.
Date:: [circa September 4, 1931]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Gene B. Woods and Joe Taylor at the Grand Jury room, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Reported with similar photographs in "Burglary Bribe Studied by Grand Jury: High Police Officials Called Before Body Investigating Long-Dormant Political Feud in Department High Police Summoned Before Grand Jury," Los Angeles Times, 25 May 1935: 1. Browse this issue
Date:: May 24, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Al Horton and Leo McDonald with the wandering possum, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:: Initially mistaken for a skunk, the officers at the Georgia Street police station were wary of being sprayed by the creature, until Alabama native Radio Officer Thomas Jefferson Woolridge truly identified the creature.
Date:: January 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Chief Davis inspecting police at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, 1927

Description:: This photograph is related to the event described in the article, “Public Police Inspection Set for This Year,” Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 1927: A11
Date:: [May 2, 1927]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Police Captain E. Raymond Cato and Detective Harry Raymond during the Hickman kidnap and murder trial, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:: Police Captain Raymond Cato and Detective Harry Raymond, seated together, photographed during the trial of William Edward Hickman, tried for the kidnap and murder of 12-year-old Marion Parker in December of 1927. Hickman was sentenced to death after a 13-day trial. He was executed at San Quentin, October 19, 1928.
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Norris Stensland, Joe Taylor, Blayney Matthews and William Bright pose with suspects arrested for the kidnapping of John and Elaine Jeske, Los Angeles, [1934]

Description:: In the front row, from left to right, Jerry Lamoreaux and Cecil R. Russell sit slumped in chairs upon their arrest on suspicion of kidnapping. Both cross their arms in front of them and either close their eyes or cast them downward. Behind them, from left to right, Norris Stensland, Joe Taylor, Floyd C. Britton, Blayney Matthews and William Bright stand in a row behind them. All but Floyd C. Britton are police. Floyd C. Britton is also arrested on suspicion of kidnapping.
Date:: [circa July 28, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Police Captain R.R. McDonald with Barbara Whittaker, Louise Watkins, Mrs. Kromer and Mable Patton at a shooting range, Los Angeles, 1935

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

Sheriff's Capt. Tom W. Pinkston at the Ruben Salazar Inquest, Los Angeles, 1970

Description:: Possibly related to Los Angeles Times article, "Mexican-American Observers Walk Out of Salazar Inquest," Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 1970: A1.
Date:: September 10, 1970
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Olender, Ben
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Banquet for police chief August Vollmer, Los Angeles, 1923-1924

Description:: August Vollmer (center) stands at a banquet table. Seated guests include, from left, district attorney Asa Keyes), W. K. Fuller, W. W. Mines and Mario Hellman. Vollmer was the chief of the Los Angeles Police Department from 1923 to 1924.
Date:: 1923-1924
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Banquet for police chief August Vollmer, Los Angeles, 1923-1924

Description:: August Vollmer (center) stands at a banquet table. Seated guests include, from left, district attorney Asa Keyes), W. K. Fuller, W. W. Mines and Mario Hellman. Vollmer was the chief of the Los Angeles Police Department from 1923 to 1924.
Date:: 1923-1924
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Police Lieutenant Detectives with Otis Bias and Wendell Kelly, arrested for murder, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Otis Bias and Wendell Kelly, arrested for the murder of Robert F. Rinker, are seated at a desk on either side of Captain Ralph N. Davis, as Lieutenant Detectives look on, left to right: Joe Daniels, Joe Filkas, Thad Brown and E. G. Brown.
Date:: February 28, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Virginia Bruce Gilbert and Officers O’Louis and Glavey, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:: This photograph may be associated with the article, “Guarded From Kidnap Threat: BRUCE HOME UNDER GUARD Film Writer Tells How She Received Warning on Kidnaping Plot,” Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 1936: A3.
Date:: February 26, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Police raid beer parlor on Central Avenue, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: This photograph is likely related to the article, “Fist Fights Mark Raids,” Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct 1935: 1.
Date:: October 7, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Thirty-year police photographer Florentin Florentin, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:: Photograph appears with the article, " "Thirty Years of Mugs;" - That's Officer's Boast," Los Angeles Times, 08 Feb 1936: 12.
Date:: February 7, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Police Sergeant Denny and Lieutenant Therkorn examining a shotgun, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: This photograph appears with the article, “Paroled Pair’s Deadly Weapon,” Los Angeles Times, 18 Jul. 1935: A2.
Date:: July 18, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Protesting in front of police headquarters in response to police conduct at Century Plaza demonstration during President Johnson's visit, 1967.

Date:: July 9, 1967
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Brown, Frank Q.
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Assistant City Attorney Newton Kendall with other city officials deciding parking policies, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: This photograph appears in the article, "Car Tagging to Continue; Court's Decision Held No Bar," Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 1935: A2.
Date:: March 6, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Officer William Hynes stands before broken glass door, Los Angeles, 1933

Description:: William Hynes stands in front of an open door. A crowd is gathered behind him, posing with the broken glass door.
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Officer Orley O. Sanner listens to police radio, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Officer Sanner sits at a desk with surrounded by radio machinery and a microphone.
Date:: November 12, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Margaret Fontaine Porter charged for aiding bank robbery, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Porter (center) at the police station with Officer Wells behind her. An unidentified man holds the door open for them both.
Date:: February 7, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Captain Cato and Detective Barr question William Hawkins in Pridham Blackmail case, Los Angeles, 1926

Description:: Detective Cato and Detective Barr of the LAPD questioning William Everett Hawkins, the suspect of a blackmail case in which he a chauffeur accused of extorting his employer R. W. Pridham.
Date:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Police officers clear Los Angeles Railway strikers, making way for street cars, Los Angeles, 1934

Description:: This photograph is likely related to the article, “Car Strikers in Downtown Riot; Walkout Expected to End Today,” Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov 1934: 1, 3.
Date:: November 26, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Percy A. Ackley preaches, Los Angeles, 1930

Description:: Percy A. Ackley, policeman, standing with a bible in his left hand and his right fist raised as he preaches. Reported, with a similar photograph, in "POLICEMAN STUDYING TO BECOME MINISTER," Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 1930: A6.
Date:: September 28, 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Police detaining Greenpeace members at Occidental Petroleum meeting in Los Angeles, Calif., 1986

Date:: May 22, 1986
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Fry, George R.
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Harold Nathan joins Sheriff Gene Biscailuz and Joseph P. Dunn, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Assistant to J. Edgar Hoover Harold Nathan has come to Los Angeles to address the State convention of District Attorneys.
Date:: June 25, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Former Police Commissioner Fred Gollum faces charges of petty theft, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Photograph appears with the article, "Ex-Official Surrenders," Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar 1935: A3.
Date:: March 19, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Detective Lieutenant Loren L. Miles, Los Angeles, 1932-34

Description:: Det. Lieut. Miles poses for a photograph in a three-pieces suit.
Date:: [between 1932 and 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Motorcycle officer Howard J. Garner examining linens found in the apartment of William Edward Hickman murderer of Marion Parker, 1927

Description:: Collected evidence from the apartment helped convict William Edward Hickman for the kidnapping and murder of Marion Parker, aged 12. Hickman was executed at San Quentin, October 22, 1928.
Date:: December 20, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Captain Bert Wallis (left), Detective Lieutenant Miles Ledbetter (center), and C. P. Stevens, recaptured fugitive, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: John Edward Healey (John E. Healey) is not in this negative. He appears with Ledbetter and Wallis in negative 7527.
Date:: [circa April 16, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Charles N. Stevens, Los Angeles Police Commissioner, Los Angeles, 1934

Description:: Charles N. Stevens was not a police officer when nominated to the Police Commission. He was a sales manager for gas and electric appliances. He was confirmed March 22, 1934.
Date:: [circa March 15, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Officer Charles C. Clark is taken in questioning with a string of burglaries and robberies, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:: Charles C. Clark has worked with the police department for over ten years, but is now being considered as a collaborate in a string of robberies and burglaries that he and partner Ralph Savage allegedly served as lookouts for.
Date:: January 6, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Captain Bert Wallis, LAPD homicide (left), John Edward Healey, recaptured fugitive (center), and Miles H. Ledbetter, detective lieutenant, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Three men sit in chairs in front of a desk. Captain Bert Wallis (left) holds a pipe in both hands and is looking at John Edward Healey (center). Healey has his left hand in his pants pocket. Miles H. Ledbetter also faces Healey, left arm bent, hand on his hip. The desk has a photograph of a man behind bars, possibly Healey, papers, and portfolios.
Date:: [between March 27 and July 13, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Fred Powers sits captured in handcuffs while police H. C. Bryan and M. C. Blake stand watch, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:: Photograph of burglary suspect Fred Powers sitting and looking down at his oil covered hands in cuffs. Next two him are two police, H. C. Bryan and M. C. Blake.
Date:: March 17, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Joseph Taylor Chief of Detectives in a group portrait, Los Angeles, 1931

Description:: Group portrait of men gathered at the desk of on older man. Chief Detective Joe Taylor is among them, 3rd from left. This photograph is related to the investigation of the double murder committed by Winnie Ruth Judd.
Date:: 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Robbery suspect Alex Smit being held at police station with officer K. E. Kurtz, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Finnish tailor Alex Smit being held for question at Georgia St. police station by Officer K. E. Kurtz after being chased down by a garage owner, who claimed that Smit had stolen his watch.
Date:: Aug. 1, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Thirty-year police photographer Florentin Florentin, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:: Florentin Florentin stands beside his camera.
Date:: February 7, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Burmah White, Lula Lane, and Violet Dillon in court, Los Angeles, 1933

Description:: Photograph appears with the article, "Ex-Publisher Views Body," Los Angeles Times, 09 Sep 1933: A2.
Date:: September 8, 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Otis Porter evades reporters after his arrest for robbery, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: This photograph is likely related to the article, “Woman Held in Gang Quiz,” Los Angeles Times, 08 Feb 1935: A2.
Date:: February 7, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Police dusting for fingerprints in a Ford coup, possibly related to the Hickman kidnap and murder case, Los Angeles, 1927

Description:: William Edward Hickman, wanted for the kidnap and murder of Marion Parker, was captured in Echo, Oregon, after an eight-day manhunt. In his initial confession (given while in Oregon) he named an alleged accomplice who drove a Ford coup. That detail is noted in the article, "Detailed Confession Made by "The Fox": Amazing Account of Conversing With Detectives and Following Police Cars at Rendezvous After Kidnapping Given by Hickman," Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 1927: 1.
Date:: 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Captain Owen J. Stroud, Eugene Wiggins, and Officer G.L. Rice, Chavez Ravine (Los Angeles), 1935

Description:: An embarrassed (Rance) Eugene Wiggins is held between fire fighter Owen J. Stroud and police officer G.L. (Gideon Lewis) Rice, immediately after being rescued. Wiggins had become stranded on a natural ledge within Chavez Ravine after he decided to go exploring in the formation. Wiggins was rescued by an emergency team that included Stroud and Rice. An unknown man stands in the background.
Date:: October 25, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Officers William A. Bannon, W.O . Mellon, and Chief Wilfred Spellman with blindfolded stunt driver Hayward Thompson and his car, Los Angeles, 1927

Description:: Photograph appears with the article, "Vision Marvel Breaks Record," Los Angeles Times, 01 Feb 1927: A1, A12.
Date:: February 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Honolulu Chief of Police William Gabrielson visits Los Angeles, 1934

Description:: On a recent visit to Los Angeles with his wife, Chief of Police William Gabrielson of Honolulu showed Los Angeles Chief James Davis that the island has the same resources that the West Coast city does.
Date:: April 10, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Police Chief Wilfred Spellman with stunt driver Hayward Thompson, Los Angeles, 1927

Description:: Different photographs taken on the same occasion appear with the article, "Vision Marvel Breaks Record," Los Angeles Times, 01 Feb 1927: A1, A12
Date:: January 31, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Chief of Police James E. Davis, Los Angeles, 1920s

Description:: Chief of Police James E. Davis standing against a wall, holding a hat in his hand. Davis was the Los Angeles Chief of Police from 1926 to 1929 and 1933 to 1936.
Date:: 1920-1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Chief of Police James E. Davis, Los Angeles, 1920s

Description:: Los Angeles Chief of Police James E. Davis standing against a wall. Davis was the Los Angeles Chief of Police from 1926 to 1929 and 1933 to 1936.
Date:: 1920-1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Police officer W. C. Brooks fingerprints Harper McDowell, a man with twelve fingers, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:: Police officer W. C. Brooks grasps Harper McDowell's right hand with both of his hands. McDowell holds both of his hands up, all 12 fingers are covered in fingerprint ink. McDowell is sitting at a table, looking at the camera. Both men are smiling slightly. Fingerprinting instructions are taped to the wall next to McDowell.
Date:: [circa January 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Sargent Wallace E. Lund designs bronze L. A. P. D. plaque, Los Angeles, 1935

Date:: November 20, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Elevated view of the annual police inspection at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, 1927

Description:: This photograph is related to the event described in the article, “Public Police Inspection Set for This Year,” Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 1927: A11
Date:: May 2, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Los Angeles Southeast Division police officers arresting four male youths in Los Angeles, Calif., 1980

Date:: August 27, 1980
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Yaro, Boris
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Dr. Edgar Spear and nurse Charles Whitehead shake hands with Police Detective Vern Filby at the Georgia Street Hospital, Los Angeles, 1936

Date:: April 9, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Los Angeles Police Department championship pistol team with trophies, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Related to standalone photo, "Police Team Brings Home Trophies--New Starlet--Historic Bridge Burns." Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 1935
Date:: October 22, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Protester Sylvia Barkley removed forcibly from City Council chambers after being denied a hearing regarding police actions at a demonstration during President Johnson's visit to Century Plaza Hotel. A. 1967.

Description:: Image that accompanies caption in print is 236643-17-7.
Date:: June 27, 1967
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Rogers, Art
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Officer J. Humphrey offers food to Herbert J. Teater, Los Angeles, 1925

Description:: After an arrest on charges of embezzlement Teater has lost 41 pounds since his arrest on August 15th by consistently refusing to eat until he is allowed to return to his home city of New York.
Date:: August 30, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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