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Title: Radio man Doug Douglas and his youngest son Static, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: March 1936
1936-03
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.
Doug Douglas talks about the art of his job of reading the newspaper comics over the radio. Static is the youngest of he and wife Mary's four children.
Doug shows his son the comic strips as the boy stands on top of the chair and shouts.
Story related to photograph appears with the article, ""Times" Funny Paper Man Big Kid Himself," Los Angeles Times, 08 Mar 1936: C10.
Text from negative sleeve: 3884 - Doug. Douglas son "Static". (radio announcer) Studio Shot [stamped:] Mar 10 1936
Handwritten on negative: Doug Douglas + son "Static"
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_12918
ark:/21198/zz002hn14c
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Radio broadcasting--California--Los Angeles
Fathers--California--Los Angeles
Comics
Sons--American--California--Los Angeles
Douglas, Doug
Douglas, Static, b. 1933 or 34
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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