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Title: Robert A. Gantt of the Postal Telegraph-Cable Company visits Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: January 29, 1936
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.
Gantt sits at a desk in front of a large map holding a cigarette in one hand.
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.
Photograph appears with the article, "Postal Head On Trip Here," Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan 1936: 12.
Text from newspaper caption: Robert A. Gantt, executive vice-president of Postal system, who is here.
Handwritten on negative: Vice Pres - Postal Telegraph N.Y. Robert A. Gantt
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
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_12412
ark:/21198/zz002h8fzn
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Maps
Smoking
Desks
Gantt, Robert A., 1881-1968
International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation
Postal Telegraph-Cable Company
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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