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Title: Police chemist Ray Pinker demonstrates chemical explosion in courtroom, Los Angeles, 1938
Date Created and/or Issued: November 22, 1938
1938-11-22
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 is related to the article, "Jury views Chemical Blast At Cleaning Terror Trial," Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov 1938: A2.
Police chemist Ray Pinker (right) leans away from a chemical explosion during a demonstration of how potassium reacts to water in a courtroom. The demonstration was held after the chemical was discovered by terrorists padding clothing with it as a response to a price war.
Handwritten on negative: Ray Pinker
Text from negative sleeve: 15016 -- Ray Pinker Making chemical demonstration in Court Room - Cleaner Sabotage Case 11/22/38 [stamped:] L. A. Times Photo By Gordon Wallace
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_11750
ark:/21198/zz002h8kcs
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Chemists--American--California--Los Angeles
Courtrooms--California--Los Angeles
Pinker, Ray, 1904-1979
Wallace, Gordon Charles, 1909-1992
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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