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P. D. Ackerman, fingerprinting a gun from the Julia Graham suicide case, Los Angeles, 1935

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Title: P. D. Ackerman, fingerprinting a gun from the Julia Graham suicide case, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: July 15, 1935
1935-07-15
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 Haynes Foundation funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
P. D. Ackerman is sitting behind a desk, applying fingerprint powder with a brush onto one of three guns found on the site of Julia Graham's suicide. Two candlestick phones are on a table next to him. Part of a calendar for July 1935 can be seen on the wall behind him. Underneath a clear protective desk cover, there appear to be sheets of phone numbers to various police agencies.
Text on calendar: June 1935/August 1935
Handwritten on negative: 129. 129. P. D. Ackerman
Text on sheets on desk: Los Angeles Police Department. Los Angeles County Grand [rest is off the photo]. Los Angeles Sheriff's Department.
Handwritten on negative sleeve: 1286. P. D. Ackerman. Finger Print Expert. Julia Graham Suicide. 7/15/35. [stamped:] Jul 22 1935
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_7690
ark:/21198/zz002dff1p
Language: English
Subject: Firearms
Calendars
Telephones--1930-1940
Police--California--Los Angeles
Fingerprinting--California--Los Angeles
Ackerman, P. D. (Pulver D.), 1893-1963
Source: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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