Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. This photograph appears with the article “Officer Has Book Hobby, Barlow Reads Fingerprints on Duty but First Editions in Spare Moments.” Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 1935: A3 Howard L. Barlow, in suit and tie, seated at table, hand behind head, laughing, with about 9 closed and 17 open books on table, about 250 books in bookcases behind him. Visible book titles include: Whaling in the Frozen South, A Vagabond Trouper, California Memories, Our Campaigns, Leaves from the Golden Bough, The Lion's Den, Spies, The Ancient Law Text from newspaper caption: Capt. Barlow and Collection. Books are the hobby of Capt. H.L. Barlow, fingerprint expert of the Los Angeles Police Department, shown here with his 6000 volumes. 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
1157 uclamss_1429_1157 ark:/21198/zz002dbk18
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Book collectors--California--Los Angeles Book collecting Barlow, Howard L., 1891-1938
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