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Title: Jack Royal reenacting an attempted robbery at his hotel, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: September 3, 1935
1935-09-03
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, “BULLETS FOIL HOLD-UP MAN: Hotel Owner Shoots Sailor Attempting fRobbery [sic]; Companion Seized,” Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 1935: 3.
Text from newspaper caption: When a bandit tried to rob Jack Royal, owner of a downtown hotel, yesterday, he shot the intruder by firing through the front of the counter. Here he is pointing at the hole in the panel made by the bullet.
Text from negative sleeve: 2006—Jack Royal, Holdup Victim, 9/2/35. [Stamped:] SEP 13 1935.
Handwritten on negative: Jack Royal—9-2-35.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_8354
ark:/21198/zz002dg6x6
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Firearms
Hotel employees--California--Los Angeles
Hotels--California--Los Angeles
Royal, Jack
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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