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Description:: Eva Botsch (right) receives a check from bank clerk H. W. Gresham (left) as part the Bank of America Christmas Club savings initiative.
Date:: December 2, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Location could be at Spring Street and 1st Street (or Spring and 3rd Street).
Date:: [between 1920-1939]
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:: View of Theodore Harkcom, police officer, crawling out of tunnel in police hat and uniform. Workers discovered a tunnel beneath the Farmers and Merchants Bank in Watts when replacing the flooring in the bank. Unused acetylene torches, tanks, and hose were found in the tunnels. Indications show the diggings had been abandoned along with the vault equipment, two or three years ago. The Farmers and Merchants Bank of Watts has no connection with the Farmers and Merchants National Bank of Los Angeles.
Date:: September 1, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of James Reid, police officer, standing in hat, collared shirt, tie, jacket, pants, shoes, examining acetylene equipment. The equipment was found in a tunnel beneath the Farmers and Merchants Bank in Watts. Workers discovered the tunnel when replacing the flooring in the bank and immediately summoned the police. Indications show the diggings had been abandoned along with the vault equipment, two or three years ago. The Farmers and Merchants Bank of Watts has no connection with the Farmers and Merchants National Bank of Los Angeles.
Date:: September 1, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Three bandits made off with $6100 in cash, bringing in a machine gun, shotgun and an automatic pistol. One of the bandits held bank guard Edward M. Hill at gunpoint and relieved him of his revolver. They drove away with a fourth man in a sedan parked outside.
Date:: March 2, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Probably related to Los Angeles Times article, December 18, 1930, “Belvedere State Bank Taken Over, Small Institution Said to Have Frozen Assets, So It Acts to Aid Depositors”
Date:: 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Related to the article, "Hollywood Bank Robbed," Los Angeles Times, 03 Mar. 1936: 3.
Date:: March 2, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph depicts Hellman Bank for Commercial Trusts and Savings Lincoln Park Branch in Los Angeles. People are standing outside the bank. The address is 1424.
Date:: [between 1920-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Similar photograph appears with the article, "Hero in Bank Hold-Up Hunted in Second Raid," Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan 1936: A3.
Date:: January 31, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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