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Title: City Council President Boyle Workman using a telephone, Los Angeles, 1927
Date Created and/or Issued: March 1927
1927-03
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.
Negative sleeve reads 1929, however calendar present in image is for March 1927. This date is also supported by the fact that Workman was in office as the City Council President from 1919-1927. He later ran for Mayor in 1929, but lost the election.
City Council President Boyle Workman sits at his desk smiling while on the telephone. Calendar from March 1927 behind his left shoulder reads "Blow not in to a flame the spark which is kindled between two friends. They are easily reconciled and will both hate you."
Handwritten on negative sleeve: L. A. historical figure.
Text from negative sleeve: Workaman, Boyle. City Council. 1929.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_2479
ark:/21198/zz002dc81c
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Politicians--California--Los Angeles
City council members--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles (Calif.). City Council
Workman, Boyle, 1868-1942
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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