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Chief of Police James Davis gives Irvin S. Cobb a badge for his honorary position, Los Angeles, 1935

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Title: Chief of Police James Davis gives Irvin S. Cobb a badge for his honorary position, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: October 30, 1935
1935-10-30
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.
The Times writer Irvin S. Cobb has been inducted in the citizens' auxiliary of the police department.
Chief Davis holds a police badge attached to Cobb's jacket lapel.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Irvin S. Cobb Becomes 'Real' Police Officer," Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct 1935: A1.
Text from newspaper caption: 2701 - Irving Cobb James E Davis new Police Badge 10-30-35 [stamped:] Nov 4- 1935
Handwritten on negative: L2R Irving Cobb 10-30-35 James E Davis
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_9222
ark:/21198/zz002dh7v3
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Badges
Police--California--Los Angeles
Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury), 1876-1944
Davis, James E. (James Edgar), 1889-1949
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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