Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Gantt sits at a desk in front of a large map holding a cigarette in one hand. Photograph appears with the article, "Postal Head On Trip Here," Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan 1936: 12. Active head of the Postal Telegraph-Cable Company (subsidiary of the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation) Robert A. Gantt is in Los Angeles to check on the city's communication systems. Text from negative sleeve: 3434 - Robert A. Gantt (Vice President New York) Homer E. Patton (Mgr. Pacific Gen. San Francisco (Postal Telegraph) 1/?/36 [stamped:] Jan 29 1936 Handwritten on negative: Vice Pres - Postal Telegraph N.Y. Robert A. Gantt Text from newspaper caption: Robert A. Gantt, executive vice-president of Postal system, who is here.
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image
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b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_12412 ark:/21198/zz002h8fzn
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Subject
Smoking Desks Maps Gantt, Robert A., 1881-1968 Postal Telegraph-Cable Company International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation
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