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Title: Detective Lieutenant Spear receives attempted burglary suspect Jean Colby, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: August 20, 1935
1935-08-20
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
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.
Detective Lieutenant Spear receives attempted burglary suspect Jean Colby from two unidentified uniformed police officers. Spear has a cigar in his mouth. The officer holding Colby's left arm holds a cigarette in his left hand. A map of the Central Police Division hangs on the wall besides Spear.
Text on map on wall: Central Police Division
Handwritten on negative sleeve: 1811. Jean Colby, Det.-Lieut. Spear (suspect attempted burglary) 8/20/35 [stamped:] Aug 30 1935
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_8125
ark:/21198/zz002dfz1x
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Police--Uniforms
Police--California--Los Angeles
Burglary--California--Los Angeles
Detectives--California--Los Angeles
Suspects (Criminal investigation)--California--Los Angeles
Colby, Jean
Los Angeles (Calif.). Police Department
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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