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Title: Poet E. B. Goodman writes with his left hand, El Centro, 1934
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa November 2, 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 appears with the article, "El Centro Poet Shot in Mishap: Bard of Desert Wounded as Officers Seek Capture of Automobile Thieves," Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 1934: A12.
Poet E. B. Goodman writes with his left hand since his right arm was accidentally shot by police as they chased car thieves.
Text from newspaper caption: Muse Jolted: E.B. Goodman, "Poet of the Desert," who was wounded as innocent bystander while officers chase suspects.
Text from negative sleeve: Goodman, E.B. Poet
Handwritten on negative: E.B. Goodman
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_4973
ark:/21198/zz002ctx30
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Poets--California--El Centro
Victims--California--El Centro
Goodman, E. B
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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