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. Possibly related to the article, "Kidnapers of Officer Hunted, Five Armed Autoists Abduct Street Superintendent, Escape is Made in Motor Car Believed Stolen, Plot to Rob Beverly Hills Bank Suspected," Los Angeles Times, April 1, 1921. The article states: "Five armed men believed to have been planning to hold up the First National Bank of Beverly Hills, yesterday morning abducted C.B. Duncan, Superintendent of Streets of Beverly Hills, and after forcing him into an automobile drove to a clump of eucalyptus trees near Culver City, where he was released..." Exterior view of the First National Bank of Beverly Hills on Santa Monica Blvd. next to the train tracks of the Pacific Electric streetcar line.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_0361 ark:/21198/zz002d9mkk
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Business Banks--California--Beverly Hills Kidnappings--California--Beverly Hills Bank robberies--California--Beverly Hills Baptism Economy First National Bank of Beverly Hills (Beverly Hills, Calif.)
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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