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. Similar photograph appears with the article, "Liquor Chief Here Named," Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb 1936: A1. Merle sits at a desk flipping through a large stack of paperwork while Mr. Parsons leans over him also touching the paperwork. Merle Thompson has been assigned for reorganization of the Los Angeles liquor control office. Thompson is head of the liquor control division activities in San Diego and Imperial counties and has been assigned to duty in the liquor-control division ever since the repeal of prohibition. Text from negative sleeve: 3520 - Merle L. Templeton Murray H. Parsons (Liquor Control) 2/?/36 [stamped:] Mar 4 1936 Handwritten on negative: Murry H. Parsons Merle L. Templeton
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_12521 ark:/21198/zz002hmjft
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Blue laws--California--Los Angeles Paperwork Desks Parsons, Murray Haisley, 1882-1947 Templeton, Merle
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