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C. Jack Gaines and Elliott B. Thomas report to prison, San Quentin en route, 1932

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Title: C. Jack Gaines and Elliott B. Thomas report to prison, San Quentin en route, 1932
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa November 19, 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.
Related to the article, "THOMAS GETS NUMBER TODAY: Ex-School Head Scheduled to Enter San Quentin Jack Gaines, Broker, Also Will Begin Sentence Twenty-six in Prison Party That Left Yesterday," Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 1932: A2
From left to right, C. Jack Gaines and Elliott B. Thomas stand in a detention facility. Both men wear suits and face towards camera. C. Jack Gaines looks directly to camera and Elliott B. Thomas looks off to the right. Mr. Thomas appears to wear handcuffs on his left wrist. Several other men stand in a small cluster behind them. Ducts line a low ceiling above the men and subway tiles stretch across the back wall. A sign posted on the back wall at left reads, "PRISONER [...] NO SMOKIN[G]."
Text from negative sleeve: THOMAS ELLIOTT B. KIDNAP CASE, 1932
Handwritten on negative: L to R - C. Jack Gaines Elliott Thomas
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_3768
ark:/21198/zz002cpf9j
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Prisoners--California--San Quentin
Detention facilities--California--San Quentin
Thomas, Elliot Boal, b. 1896-1981
Gaines, Claude Jarvis, 1893-1936
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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