Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Howard L. Barlow, in suit and tie, leaning on table, holding pencil and enlarged fingerprint images marked P. Eberlee, with tables, papers, and typewriter in background Also related to the article “Man’s Appeal Filed Too Late.” Los Angeles Times, 12 May 1931: A2. The article states: … District Court of Appeal … dismissed Percy Harry Eberlee’s appeal from conviction … on a charge of slaying Melvin Earl Hatch … Eberlee was … identified after police had previously associated him with the crime through fingerprints. This photograph appears with the article “Fingerprint Work Told, Los Angeles Bureau Leads Nation in Science of Identification.” Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 1934: A3 Text from newspaper caption: Science Aids War on Crime. Capt. H.L. Barlow, who tracks men by their telltale fingerprints, is shown in his police laboratory, inspecting a “blown up” print, one of science’s newest aids in the unceasing war on crime. Text from nitrate negative sleeve: Barlow, H. L. Handwritten at edge of negative: Capt. H.L. Barlow
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
1153 uclamss_1429_1153 ark:/21198/zz002dbjwq
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Fingerprints Barlow, Howard L., 1891-1938 Eberlee, Percy Harry, 1906-1972
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