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High school students start hunt for missing educator, Elliott B. Thomas, Redondo Beach vicinity, 1932

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Title: High school students start hunt for missing educator, Elliott B. Thomas, Redondo Beach vicinity, 1932
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa October 18, 1932]
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: 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: Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Scores of male high school students gather outside a school to begin the search for missing educator, Elliot B. Thomas. The boys stand together in a large crowd and look towards the camera. They are viewed from a slightly elevated perspective. School buildings stretch across the background at left and center.
This photograph is possibly related to the article, "MISSING EDUCATOR HUNTED IN HILLS AND ALONG SEA: Redondo Search Fails as Officers Sift Clews to Terrific Struggle With School Safe-Crackers," Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 1932: A1
Text from negative sleeve: THOMAS, ELLIOTT B. KIDNAP CASE, 1932
Handwritten on negative: High School students starting hunt for Elliott B. Thomas
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_3766
ark:/21198/zz002cpf7h
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Missing persons--California--Redondo Beach
Students--American--California--Redondo Beach
Search and rescue operations--California
Thomas, Elliot Boal, b. 1896-1981
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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