US UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description
Los Angeles motorcycle police officer Oscar Bayer in his police uniform. He sits in front of a cabinet containing glass shelves of medical instruments. Bayer "wrote a page of police history," when he raced after five bank robbers traveling by car, took three bullets, and still bested the shooters. This image appears with the article "Hail Bayer Fightin' Hero...," Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 1925: 2. Handwritten on negative: Officer Oscar Bayer Text from negative sleeve: Bayer, Oscar. Police dept. (Good shot of old touring car.) 1925
Type
image
Format
b&w glass negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_b3692_G333 ark:/21198/z1907wm5
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Police--California--Los Angeles Bayer, Oscar, 1896-1929
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