Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Police Chief Blair is quoted in the article, "Southland Stunned by Tragic Plane Deaths of Will Rogers and Wiley Post: Gestures of Reverence Bear Witness to Grief. Film Colony, Official Circles and Lay Public Pay Tribute to Widely-Beloved Pair," Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 1935. Police Chief Charles C. Blair standing next to a framed collage of seven photographs featuring Will Rogers and members of the Beverly Hills Police and Fire Departments. The photos were taken when Blair was a patrolman. Caption below photos reads: "Mayor Will Rogers Inspecting His Police and Fire Department, Beverly Hills, Calif. Mar. 6th 1927." Blair is photographed in an office with maps of Beverly Hills seen on the wall and on the surface on which the framed collage rests. Handwritten on negative: Chas. C. Blair. 8/16/35. Text from negative sleeve: 1758. Chas. Blair. Chief Police Beverly Hills. 8/16/35. [Stamped:] Aug 27 1935.
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image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_10149 ark:/21198/zz002ddxdp
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Police--California--Beverly Hills Blair, Charles Coutts, 1884-1946 Rogers, Will, 1879-1935
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