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Title
Barbara Ward who fainted during a bank robbery, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued
March 2, 1936
1936-03-02
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.
Three bandits made off with $6100 in cash, bringing in a machine gun, shotgun and an automatic pistol. They drove away with a fourth man in a sedan parked outside.
A crowd of people stare as a man in a white jacket pulls Barbara Ward across the floor by holding a rope attached to a stretcher. Her eyes are closed and limbs are crossed over each other.
Related to the article, "Hollywood Bank Robbed," Los Angeles Times, 03 Mar. 1936: 3.
Text from negative sleeve: 3484 - Barbara Ward (actress)-fainted) Bank Robbery - Melrose and Bronson 3/2/36 [stamped:] Mar 1 1936
Handwritten on negative: on stretcher - Barbara Ward actress 3/2/36
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_12459
ark:/21198/zz002hmg9s
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Banks--California--Los Angeles
Litters
Loss of consciousness
Ward, Barbara
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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