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. Patrolman Roy Mills is dressed in uniform and squats on his haunches holding a club and a flashlight. Text from newspaper caption: Patrolman Roy Mills of Fullerton-they have nicknamed him Spider-has made something of a record for himself among his townfolk. It seems that the officer spends the wee hours of each morning when time hangs heavy over his head killing Black Widows. He says the dangerous insects lurk in alleys and other dark places. So with a special night club he swats the spiders-as many as eighteen or twenty almost every morning. Photograph appears with newspaper caption, "Officer Wars on 'Black Widows'," Los Angeles Times, 04 Feb 1936: 9. Handwritten on negative: Roy Mills Text from negative sleeve: 3579 - Roy Mills of Fullerton Police Dept. Kills black widow spiders on his night beat. 2/3/36 [stamped:] Feb 11 1936
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_12658 ark:/21198/zz002hmq53
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Law enforcement officers--California--Los Angeles Spiders--California Mills, Roy, b. 1902
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