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Title: Harry B. Elliott uses the telephone, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: March 1936
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.
When robbers came into the Melrose and Bronson branch of Bank of America with a machine gun, a sawed off shotgun and an automatic pistol service station operator Harry B. Elliott called the police, but the police did not get there in time before the bandits escaped with $6100.
Story related to photograph appears with the article, "Hollywood Bank Robbed," Los Angeles Times, 03 Mar 1936: 3.
Harry B. Elliott sits in his office and uses a candlestick phone.
Handwritten on negative: Harry B. Elliott - saw robbers - service station man Bank Robbery - Melrose Bronson
Text from negative sleeve: 3484 - Harry B. Elliott service station man-phoned police Bank Robbery - Melrose + Bronson 3/2/36 [stamped:] Mar 4 1936
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_12463
ark:/21198/zz002hmgfv
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Telephones
Robberies--California--Los Angeles
Elliott, Harry B
Bank of America
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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