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Dexter E. Fowler, the “thirteenest” man in the United States, posing with some omens of bad luck, Los Angeles, 1935

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Title: Dexter E. Fowler, the “thirteenest” man in the United States, posing with some omens of bad luck, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: September 2, 1935
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.
This photograph appears with the article, “He Defies Jinx Numeral: Thirteen’s His Number; It Runs Good and Bad,” Los Angeles Times, 02 Sep. 1935: 14.
Handwritten on negative: Dexter E. Fowler.
Text from negative sleeve: 1949—Dexter E. Fowler, Boru Friday 13th, 9/1/35. [Stamped:] Sep 4, 1935.
Text from newspaper caption: Goading fate, as it were, Dexter E. Fowler, whose destiny seems uncommonly linked with the number ‘thirteen,’ holds forth with omens of bad luck before leaving for the Friday-the-Thirteenth Club convention.
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_8281
ark:/21198/zz002dg4dg
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Ladders
Friday the thirteenth
Cats--California--Los Angeles
Superstitions
Fowler, Dexter E., 1907-1996
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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