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Title: James Carter obscures his face with a hat, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: March 22, 1935
1935-03-22
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
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
In a hallway teeming with other men watching him Carter tilts his hat to cover his face while a photographer standing several feet away takes his picture.
Story related to photograph appears with the article, "Bunko Case Bond Fixed," Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar 1935: A5.
72-year-old James Carter, otherwise known as "Deep Sea Jimmy" is being held on $10,000 bond for defrauding Herman Bishop of $3500 in a stock deal. Police are searching for three other suspects.
Handwritten on negative: James Carter 3/22/35 alias Deepsea Jimmy
Text from negative sleeve: CARTER, JAMES ALIAS "DEEP SEA JIMMY" 1935
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_1494
ark:/21198/zz002dbznw
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Swindlers--California--Los Angeles
Older people--California--Los Angeles
Photographers--California--Los Angeles
Law & legal affairs--California--Los Angeles
Carter, James, b. 1863 or 64
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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