Subject: Bank robberies--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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:: 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
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Description:: Three men, armed with machine guns, robbed the Bank of America on Melrose and Bronson shortly before it closed on March 2nd. No one was physically injured and the bandits escaped with $6,100.
Date:: March 2, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph is likely related to the article, “Hollywood Bank Robbed,” Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar 1936: 3.
Date:: March 2, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Large crowd gathered in front of Bank of America building, 2-story brick building at intersection of Broadway and 57th Street, with 2 police officers near center, street and cars in foreground, house at right. Additional business and adversting signs read: Printin[g], Tailoring, Cleaning and Pressing, Hats Cleaned, Blocked, Metropolitan Printing, Easte[rn?] Dye Work, Happily Ever After with a Nash
Date:: August 24, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Officer Frank McGlinchey demonstrates how he fired through the window of California Bank to hit a man posing as a bank robber. In the background are open vaults.
Date:: March 10, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph is likely related to the article, “Hollywood Bank Robbed,” Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar 1936: 3.
Date:: March 2, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Traffic officer R. W. Olson standing behind the briefcase bomb that Timothy P. Blevins used in an attempted bank robbery. Photo appears with the article, "Spring Street Banker Frustrated Bomber who Demands $100,000 in Death Threat," Los Angeles Times, 01 Jan. 1932: A.
Date:: December 31, 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Consuela Blevins, wife of Timothy P. Blevins, seated next to a Los Angeles policeman. They are both seated at a desk, staring at the camera. Ms. Cornelia Blevins is wearing a fur coat and hat and the policeman is wearing a white shirt and has an open vest. Related to the article, "Wife Refutes Suspects Tale: Asserted Bank Bandit Seen Recently, She Asserts Details of Last Call Paid Husband recounted Blevin's Story about Baby Just Called Fiction," Los Angeles Times, 03 Jan. 1932: 2.
Date:: December 31, 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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