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Coroner's inquest into the fire that destroyed the Hope Development School and killed twenty-three girls, Los Angeles, 1924

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Photograph of Coroner Frank Nance holding an inquest into the fire that destroyed the Hope Development School and killed twenty-three girls. Nance is seated at a table (left), four men are seated against the wall at the left, and two women are seated on the opposite side of the table facing Nance.
Date:
June 1924
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Coroner's inquest into the fire that destroyed the Hope Development School and killed twenty-three girls, Los Angeles, 1924

Coroner's inquest into the fire that destroyed the Hope Development School and killed twenty-three girls, Los Angeles, 1924

Description:
Photograph of Coroner Frank Nance holding an inquest into the fire that destroyed the Hope Development School and killed twenty-three girls. Nance is seated at a table (2nd from left) facing a man in uniform on the other side of the table. A man in the foreground reads a document in his lap and other men seated against the wall observe.
Date:
June 1924
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Coroner's inquest into the fire that destroyed the Hope Development School and killed twenty-three girls, Los Angeles, 1924

Coroner Frank Nance, Los Angeles Superintendent of Parks Frank Shearer, and jury, [Los Angeles?], [1933?]

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Possibly connected to Los Angeles Times article, October 12, 1933, Incendiary Sign in Blaze Cited, Park Fire Tragedy Inquest Witnesses Tell Story, Mysterious Stranger Seen Fleeing From Scene, Inquiry May Be Drawn Out Over Several Days. … The two witnesses were Frank Shearer, superintendent of the city park department, and F.W. Roewekamp, park landscape engineer, who both testified that they were but a few hundred yards distant when the blaze started …
Date:
1933
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Coroner Frank Nance, Los Angeles Superintendent of Parks Frank Shearer, and jury, [Los Angeles?], [1933?]

Coroner Frank Nance listens to testimony from Roland West at the grand jury hearings into death of actress Thelma Todd, December 18, 1935

Description:
West testifies at grand jury hearings to determine Todd’s cause of death. Todd was found in the garage of film director West, her business partner and lover, dead from carbon monoxide poisoning. Nance was Los Angeles Country Coroner 1921-1945. Todd's death was eventually ruled an accident.
Date:
December 18, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Coroner Frank Nance listens to testimony from Roland West at the grand jury hearings into death of actress Thelma Todd, December 18, 1935

Coroner Frank Nance listens to testimony from Roland West at the grand jury hearings into death of actress Thelma Todd, December 18, 1935

Description:
West testifies at grand jury hearings to determine Todd’s cause of death. Todd was found in the garage of film director West, her business partner and lover, dead from carbon monoxide poisoning. Nance was Los Angeles Country Coroner 1921-1945. Todd's death was eventually ruled an accident.
Date:
December 18, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Coroner Frank Nance listens to testimony from Roland West at the grand jury hearings into death of actress Thelma Todd, December 18, 1935