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Dwight Baker at zoning bribery trial with his attorney J. Edwin Simpson, Los Angeles, 1938

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Title: Dwight Baker at zoning bribery trial with his attorney J. Edwin Simpson, Los Angeles, 1938
Contributor: Wallace, Gordon Charles, 1909-1992
Date Created and/or Issued: December 18, 1938
1938-12-18
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.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
Dwight Baker (left) and J. Edwin Simpson (right) appear in court, where Baker and Councilman Howard Davis answered to bribery charges amid a "spot zoning" scandal.
Handwritten on negative: Dwight Baker, J. E. Simpson - atty
Text from negative sleeve: 15244--- Dwight Baker (real estate man-bribery + conspiracy charges) J. E. Simpson---Indictment 12/18/38 [stamped:] DEC _9 1938; L.A. Times Photo By Gordon Wallace
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_11974
ark:/21198/zz002h8v20
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Real estate developers--California--Los Angeles County
Lawyers--California--Los Angeles
Simpson, J. Edwin, (John Edwin), b. 1889 or 90
Baker, Dwight
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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