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Ray Pinker and Robert Seares examine a bullet hole in a coat, Los Angeles, 1929-1939

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Title: Ray Pinker and Robert Seares examine a bullet hole in a coat, Los Angeles, 1929-1939
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1929-1939]
1929/1939
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.
For nearly 40 years Ray Pinker worked for the Los Angeles Police Scientific Investigation Division, the first police forensic lab in the country. The Dragnet character "Raymond Pinker" was named after him. He worked on numerous famous cases, including the Black Dahlia case. Robert Seares would later become Pasadena's chief of police.
Police chemist Ray Pinker, (left) and Robert Seares examine a bullet hole in a coat.
Handwritten on negative: L to R, Ray Pinkert [sic], Robert Seares
Text from negative sleeve: Pinker, Pay [sic], police
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_11281
ark:/21198/zz002h994r
Subject: Police--California--Los Angeles
Pinker, Ray, 1904-1979
Seares, Robert S., 1909-1998
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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