Image / Policewoman Jean Peirce, Los Angeles, circa December 1935

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Title: Policewoman Jean Peirce, Los Angeles, circa December 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: [December, 1935?]
1935-10/1935-12
Publication Information: Los Angeles Daily News
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Photo related to Peirce’s accidental shooting of Officer Yancey in October 1935. Peirce was put on trial for manslaughter in December 1935 and eventually acquitted.
Handwritten annotation from negative: Policewoman Jean Peirce, 11933
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Peirce, Jean, Mrs.; Sanderson, Leroy E., Det. Lieut.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: ark:/21198/zz00254wz0
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: People
Government
Police--California--Los Angeles
Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Peirce, Jean
Yancey, Owen D
Source: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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