Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. A similar photograph appears with the caption, "Diagnosing Mayor Shaw's Personality," Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 1935: 16 This photograph is likely related to the article, "'Los Angeles Generous City With Warm-Hearted Mayor': Muriel Stafford Further Explains Novel Science of Graphology and Its Many Revelations in Personality," Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 1935: A7 A similar photograph appears in a photo spread titled, "First Pictures of Rescue of Japanese Ship's Crew by Americans in Pacific," Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 1935: 16 From left to right, Mayor Frank L. Shaw and Muriel Stafford sit behind a desk and look at a document together. The camera looks down towards the pair. Frank Shaw's desk stretches across the bottom edge on an angle. It is strewn with papers. He sits behind it, off-center to the left, and faces towards Murial Stafford, who sits at right. She crosses her arms and holds a piece of paper out towards Mayor Shaw while looking towards him. Behind them, a side table rests against the back wall at left and a door stands ajar behind Muriel at right. Text from negative sleeve: Stafford, Muriel 1935 [handwritten:] graphologist (hand-writing expert) [end handwritten] Handwritten on negative: Frank Shaw + Muriel Stafford
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_11591 ark:/21198/zz002h9ntx
Subject
Graphologists Meetings--California--Los Angeles Mayors--California--Los Angeles Stafford, Muriel, 1903- Shaw, Frank L., 1877-1958
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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