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Title: Thirty-year police photographer Florentin Florentin, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: February 7, 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.
French-born police photographer Florentin Florentin estimates that he has photographed around 219, 000 criminals since his allotment to the position on February 6, 1906, including hammer murderess Clara Phillips, bootlegger Mile-Away Thomas and murderer Bluebeard Watson.
Photograph appears with the article, " "Thirty Years of Mugs;" - That's Officer's Boast," Los Angeles Times, 08 Feb 1936: 12.
Text from newspaper caption: Florentin Florentin
Text from negative sleeve: 3554 - Florentin Florentin 30 yrs a police photographer 2-6-36 [stamped:] Feb 7 - 1936
Handwritten on negative: Florentin Florentin 2-6-36
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_12617
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Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Police--California--Los Angeles
Photographers--California--Los Angeles
Portrait photographs
Florentin, Florentin, 1876-1961
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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