Names: Los Angeles (Calif.). Police Department - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: From front to back, S. F. "Nick" Carter and J. V. Anderson, police officers, pose with unclaimed items up for auction at the semi-annual police auction. S. F. Carter sits in a wheelchair, off-center to the left. He plays a guitar and appears to sing. Directly behind him, J. V. Carter smiles to camera while holding onto a camera. Beside the officers, a large table enters frame at right and extends back towards center. It is cluttered with unclaimed property. Typewriters, vacuum cleaners, shoes, cameras, clocks and tennis rackets are some of the items that sit atop the table. Purses and a pair of ice skates hang above the table at right. Luggage sits in a stack beneath the table.
Date:: December 8, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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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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Description:: Related to multiple articles dealing with Jean P. Peirce, policewoman, who shot and killed O. D. Yancey, policeman, on October 20, 1935. She claimed to have mistaken him for a burglar and shot to frighten him off, accidentally killing him. She was acquitted. The story was covered in the Los Angeles Times from October 21-December 7, 1935.
Date:: October 22, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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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
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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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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
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Description:: John Moore is identified as John G. Moore and John S. Moore in Los Angeles Times articles.
Date:: July 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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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
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Description:: Spectators sit in the seats lining the interior perimeter of Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The stands and spectators are below the sight line of the camera. The stands enter frame along the bottom edge, curving to the right and then back to the left. Dozens of spectators sit and mill about the stands at center. At far left, the stadium's grounds jut into view. Cars can be seen lining the inside arc of the track. The arched entrance to the stadium enters frame in the near distance at right and curves towards the left. The entrance and additional seats at left line the background.
Date:: [May 2, 1927]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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