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Title
Fire Chief R. J. Scott with a fan during a heat wave, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued
July 16, 1935
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.
This photograph appears with the article, “Torrid Weather Fills Beaches. Worries Fire Chief and Wilts Capital,” Los Angeles Times, 16 Jul. 1935: 24.
Handwritten on negative: Fire Chief R. J. Scott, 7-15-35.
Text from newspaper caption: FIRE CHIEF HAS HIS WORRIES: This is J. R. Scott, chief of the Los Angeles Fire Department, trying to keep cool while he frets over the increased fire hazards which hot weather brings. The department yesterday had many calls.
Text from negative sleeve: 1250—R. J. Scott, Fire Chief, Hot Weather 7-15-35. [Stamped:] JUL 22 1935.
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_7604
ark:/21198/zz002dfb2r
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Fire fighters--California--Los Angeles
Thermometers--California--Los Angeles
Heat waves (Meteorology)--California--Los Angeles County
Scott, R. J. (Ralph James), 1884-1958
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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