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Title
Radio man Doug Douglas and his youngest son Static, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued
March 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.
Doug shows his son the comic strips as the boy stands on top of the chair with his father's arm wrapped around his waist.
Story related to photograph appears with the article, ""Times" Funny Paper Man Big Kid Himself," Los Angeles Times, 08 Mar 1936: C10.
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.
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_12919
ark:/21198/zz002hn15w
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Sons--American--California--Los Angeles
Fathers--California--Los Angeles
Comics
Radio broadcasting--California--Los Angeles
Douglas, Doug
Douglas, Static, b. 1933 or 34
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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