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Postmaster H. B. R. Briggs, J. F. Bourne, Walter Brownsweiger, and an unidentified man by the P.O. boxes, Los Angeles, 1935

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Title: Postmaster H. B. R. Briggs, J. F. Bourne, Walter Brownsweiger, and an unidentified man by the P.O. boxes, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: July-August 1935
1935-07-08
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.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Non-Closing Postoffice Opens On Spring Street," Los Angeles Times, 25 July 1935: A1.
J.F. Bourne kneels on one knee in front of an open mailbox. Postmaster Briggs leans over Bourne's shoulder looking inside the mailbox. Behind them stands another man, and on the other side of the open mailbox another man crouches down. It is not distinguished which of these men is Walter Brownsweiger.
A new branch of the Los Angeles post office opens at 719 South Spring Street.
Handwritten on negative: 131 131
Text from negative sleeve: 1408 - H.B.R. Briggs J.F. Bourne Walter Brownsweiger opening New P.O. 719 S. [illegible] 7/24/35 [stamped:] Aug 1-1935
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_7923
ark:/21198/zz002dfq22
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Postmasters--California--Los Angeles
Mailboxes--California--Los Angeles
Post offices--California--Los Angeles
Bourne, J. F
Brownsweiger, Walter
Briggs, Henry B. R., 1881-1936
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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