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Police Chief James E. Davis and Gertrude Rounsavelle enter police car, Los Angeles, 1935

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Title: Police Chief James E. Davis and Gertrude Rounsavelle enter police car, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: February 5, 1935
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 Haynes Foundation funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
A different photograph taken on the same occasion appears with the article, "P.-T.A. Women Ride Police Cars in Study of Traffic," Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb 1935: A1.
Members of the Parent-Teachers' Association, lead by Gertrude Rounsavelle, president of the Los Angeles Tenth District California Congress of parents and teachers, congregated with Chief of Police James E. Davis to study the rise in traffic incidents and how it affects children.
Chief Davis, left, guides Mrs. Rounsavelle, right, into the white safety police car.
Text from negative sleeve: ROUNSAVELLE, L. S. MRS.
Handwritten on negative: Chief Jas E. Davis - Mrs. L. S. Rounsavelle
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_11455
ark:/21198/zz002h9h4n
Subject: Police chiefs--California--Los Angeles
Davis, James E. (James Edgar), 1889-1949
Rounsavelle, Gertrude H., 1892-1966
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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