Image / Darwin Ballenger and Frank Barron, Western Union messengers, Los Angeles, 1938

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Title: Darwin Ballenger and Frank Barron, Western Union messengers, Los Angeles, 1938
Contributor: Wallace, Gordon Charles, 1909-1992
Date Created and/or Issued: Dec. 2, 1938
1938-12-02
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
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Image depicts two Western Union messenger workers, Darwin Ballenger and Frank Barron dressed in uniform, trying out new Powell scooters.
Text from negative sleeve: 15207--Darwin Ballenger, Frank Barron. Western Union, new scooters. LA Times photo by Gordon Wallace.
Handwritten on negative: Darwin Ballenger / Frank Barron
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_11942
ark:/21198/zz002h8szg
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Messengers--California--Los Angeles
Uniforms
Scooters
Western Union Telegraph Company
Barron, Frank
Ballenger, Darwin Avery, 1917-2003
Source: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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