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Title: Ben F. Reynolds, cameraman, who found a suicide victim, 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 Arcadia funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
Ben F. Reynolds is sitting behind a table, leaning forwards, crossed arms laid in front of him on the table. He wears a collared shirt, and pinky ring on his right hand. A wall radiator is in the background. Part of a newspaper is on the table in front of him.
Possibly related to: "Efforts of Dead Actress to End Her Life Recalled," Los Angeles Times, 16 Jul 1935: A2.
Ben F. Reynolds, cameraman, found actress Julia Graham with a gunshot wound in her head. It was ruled a suicide (she had attempted to kill herself twice before).
Handwritten on negative sleeve: 1286. Ben F. Reynolds. Julia Graham Suicide. 7/15/35. [stamped:] Jul 22 1935
Text on newspaper: Vagabondia
Handwritten on negative: Ben F. Reynolds. 7/15/35
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_7691
ark:/21198/zz002dff26
Language: English
Subject: Camera operators--California--Los Angeles
Suicides--California--Los Angeles
Reynolds, Ben F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1890-1948
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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