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) 825-2300
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Coroner Frank Nance, seated at elevated desk in courtroom or inquest room, Los Angeles Superintendent of Parks Frank Shearer, seated at witness stand holding metal can, 5 or 6 men in jury box at right, man standing in foreground Possibly connected to Los Angeles Times article, October 12, 1933, Incendiary Sign in Blaze Cited, Park Fire Tragedy Inquest Witnesses Tell Story, Mysterious Stranger Seen Fleeing From Scene, Inquiry May Be Drawn Out Over Several Days. … The two witnesses were Frank Shearer, superintendent of the city park department, and F.W. Roewekamp, park landscape engineer, who both testified that they were but a few hundred yards distant when the blaze started … Handwritten at edge of negative: Coroner Nance & Frank Shearer Text from nitrate negative sleeve: Sheaver [sic], Frank, Park Superintendent, 1932
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
3023 uclamss_1429_3023 ark:/21198/zz002cmh9m
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Fires--California--Los Angeles Environment Government Griffith Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Fire, 1933 Shearer, Frank, 1875-1971 Nance, Frank A. (Frank Albert), 1875-1950
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