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

Description:: Robert Noble in County Jail awaiting bail. Noble, a self-proclaimed benefactor of the elderly, was arrested as he entered court to face misdemeanor charges, on a warrant that officers had been trying to serve for days. He was seized and booked and went to jail to await his $1000 bail to be made. Noble was a radio personality who gained loyal followers from an old age pension plan he promoted. Noble and his followers were originally arrested on October 17, 1937 while staging a demonstration near radio station KMTR. Noble was charged with holding a parade without permit, blocking the sidewalk and refusing to disperse on police command. After a lengthy trial, Noble spent five days in jail, he planned to use the time to prepare speeches for a gubernatorial campaign. He said he was pleased that he would have a captive audience at this time
Date:: November 3, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: (left to right) Harriet Lund, Bernice Haverty, and Prudence Winterrowd at the Los Angeles County Jail with dolls donated at Christmastime.
Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Japanese nationals who have been arrested by the FBI are detained in a Los Angeles jail in preparation of their evacuation from Los Angeles.
Date:: 1942
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: (left to right) Police captain Clement Peoples, Sam Williams, and Sheriff Eugene Biscailuz tasting something with a large spoon at the Los Angeles County Jail.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Matron Vada Sullivan Russell and others decorating a tree for Christmas at the LA County Jail. In front of the tree are several stuffed animals.
Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Portrait of Clem Peoples, county jailer from the 1920s to November, 1940, In uniform.
Date:: [between 1920-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Similar photograph appears with the article, "Sifts Plans Sale Charge," Los Angeles Times, 05 Mar 1936: 1.
Date:: April 12, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Lillian Smith was an actress performing in musical reviews in the 1920s and 1930s.
Date:: September 4, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Retired organist Samuel T. Whittaker was arrested in March on suspicion of murdering his wife Ethel E. Whittaker.
Date:: March 19, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of H. H. Van Loan smoking a pipe and using a typewriter to write a story in jail.
Date:: June 27, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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