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Title: Cooper Arms Apartments, view of fire escapes from street level, Long Beach, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: August 21, 1935
1935-08-21
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.
Photograph of the Cooper Arms Apartments (455 E Ocean Blvd.), view of the building's fire escapes from street level. The apartments were the home of Gladys Glena Fair, murder victim.
Related to Los Angeles Times article, "Woman Dies by Bullet: Found Slain in Bathtub Visitor to Rooms of Naval Aide at Long Beach Hunted by Police," 21 Aug. 1935: 3.
Written on negative: Fire escape Cooper Arms Apt, Long Beach, 8-21-35.
Text from negative sleeve: 1742. Florence Boykin Dowling, Glenda [sic] Fair's apt., Cooper Arms firescape [sic], Det Sgt Sibley of Long Beach, Jack Boykin, Capt Owen Murphy, Det Sgt Woodruff of Long Beach. Glenda [sic] Fair murder in Long Beach, 8/21/35. [Stamped:] Aug 27 1935.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_10119
ark:/21198/zz002ddwcp
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Criminal investigations--California--Long Beach
Apartment houses--California--Long Beach
Homicides--California--Long Beach
Cooper Arms Apartments (Long Beach, Calif.)
Fair, Gladys Glena Smith, 1898-1935
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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