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. Bob Rogers takes the fingerprints of grand juror George Rochester, while clerk Jean McGee and deputy District Attorney Eugene Blalock watch. George Rochester submitted a request to the Sheriff that all citizens should have their fingerprints taken and recorded with the law enforcement officers of their community, not for criminal files, but kept in files for private citizens. Photograph appears with the article, "Fingerprints of Grand Jurors Recorded," Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 1936: A2. Text from negative sleeve: 3589. W George Rochester, Bob Rogers, Mrs. Jean McGee, Ugene Blalock fingerprinting grand jury 2-5-36 [stamped:] Feb 11 1936 Handwritten on negative: L 2 R George Rochester, Bob Rogers, Mrs. Jean McGee, Ugene Blalock. Text from newspaper caption: George Rochester, left, chairman of the county grand jury, was among the first of that group to be fingerprinted yesterday. With him, left to right are Bob Rogers, deputy sheriff; Jean McGee, clerk, and Eugene Blalock, deputy District Attorney.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_12664 ark:/21198/zz002hmqc6
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Grand juries Blalock, Eugene, 1895-1988 McGee, Jean Rochester, George Rogers, Robert, circa 1885-1973
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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