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Last photo taken of C. C. Julian, oil fraudster, Shanghai, 1935 (copy photo, original photo date circa 1934)

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Title: Last photo taken of C. C. Julian, oil fraudster, Shanghai, 1935 (copy photo, original photo date circa 1934)
Date Created and/or Issued: September 14, 1935
1935-09-14
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.
C. C. Julian was an oil promoter who fled to Shanghai in 1933 to escape prosecution for mail fraud. In March 1934 he committed suicide.
This photograph appears in "Of C. C. Julian: the Last Days," Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep 1935: G16.
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C. C. Julian sits in a rickshaw, legs crossed, hands in lap, while an unidentified rickshaw driver holds the rickshaw and is looking at the camera. Behind him stands an unidentified Indian man, and behind the rickshaw stands another unidentified man in western clothing. Both western men wear brimmed hats and suits. The rickshaw driver is wearing a loose baggy jacket and loose pants bound at the ankles. The Indian man wears a turban and possibly a uniform of some kind.
Handwritten on negative: Last Photo C. C. Julian in China 9/14/35
Handwritten on negative sleeve: 2128. C. C. Julian. (copy of) in China 9-14-35 [stamped:] Sep 18 1935
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_8536
ark:/21198/zz002hbrs9
Subject: Criminals--California--Los Angeles
Fraud--California--Los Angeles
Oil industries--California
Rickshaw men
Rickshaws
Suicides
Julian, C. C. (Courtney Chauncey), 1885-1934
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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