US UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. This photograph is very similar to another one of Dean S. Bedilion that appeared in "Effects of Former Film Couple Spur Bids at Sale," Los Angeles Times, 09 Aug 1935: A1. In the newspaper photograph Bedilion holds dishes instead of a chair. Auctioneer Dean S. Bedilion holds up a chair in front of a crowd at the Public Administrator's auction in Los Angeles. He stands on a raised platform in front of a metal fence in the Public Administrator's storeroom. Related to "Gems of Mabel Normand and Lew Cody Auctioned," Los Angeles Times, 09 Aug 1935: A1. Handwritten on negative: Auctioneer Dean S. Bedilion, 8-8-35 Handwritten on negative sleeve: 1534. Dean S. Bedilion. Auctioneer 8-8-35 [stamped:] Aug 14 1935 Text accompanying similar photograph in Los Angeles Times: Dean S. Bedilion, auctioneer, shown holding up dishes before bidders yesterday at auction conducted by order of Ben H. Brown, Los Angeles County Public Administrator. He auctioned effects from forty-eight estates. Articles ranging from napkin rings to automobiles. These included battered "flivvers" as well as expensive limousines.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_8116 ark:/21198/zz002dfxqs
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Auctions--California--Los Angeles Auctioneers--California--Los Angeles Bedilion, Dean S. (Dean Stanley), 1889-1974
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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