Image / Reknowned criminologist and former police chief August Vollmer, Los Angeles, 1934

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Title: Reknowned criminologist and former police chief August Vollmer, Los Angeles, 1934
Date Created and/or Issued: August 9, 1934
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 (cropped) appears with the article "New Tack In Crime Fight Advocated; Vollmer Scores Study of Pigs, Poultry and Cattle Instead of Humans," Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 1934: A1.
August Vollmer, former police chief of Berkeley and Los Angeles and noted criminologist, arrives in Los Angeles in the Matson liner after lecturing at the University of Hawaii.
Text from negative sleeve: Vollmer, August
Handwritten on negative: August Vollmer
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_4367
ark:/21198/zz002cq4zg
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Arrivals & departures--American--California--Los Angeles
Police--California--Los Angeles
Vollmer, August, 1876-1955
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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