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Title
Missing Mexican Railway official Juan Vasquez after being found in a jail, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued
March 14, 1935
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 Arcadia funds.
This photograph appears with the article, "Picture Aids Memory Return: Missing Rail Man Found In Jail, Amnesia Victim," Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 1935: A3.
Juan Vasquez, an agent for the National Railways of Mexico, who had been reported missing for several days, sitting in a Lincoln Heights Jail where he had been since he disappeared under the name John Brown. He was suffering from amnesia. He is holding the Los Angeles Times article about his disappearance that was given to him to prove he was Juan Vasquez.
Text from newspaper caption: Juan Vasquez, missing railway man found in jail, shown looking at own picture in The Times
Handwritten on negative: Juan Vasquez
Text from negative sleeve: Vasquez, Juan Jr., Mexico R.R., 3/13/35
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_4133
ark:/21198/zz002cpvw4
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Amnesiacs--California--Los Angeles
Missing persons--California--Los Angeles
Vasquez Jr., Juan, b. 1899-1900
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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