Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. Mrs. L'Marie Minter smiling as she crouches by an open safe. This photograph was taken in the post office at 6706 South Normandie Avenue where two robbers held up Minter, a customer, postmistress May W. Steele, and five children, making off with $111 in cash and 152 money-order blanks. Related to the article, "Bandits Rob Postoffice," Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 1936: 10. Handwritten on negative: Mrs. L'Marie Minter. Text from negative sleeve: 3975 - Mrs. May W. Steele (post mistress @ 6706 S. Normandie) P.O. Robbery 3-7-36 [stamped:] Mar 19 1936.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_13000 ark:/21198/zz002hn3zr
Language
English
Subject
Post offices--California--Los Angeles Witnesses--California--Los Angeles Robberies--California--Los Angeles Minter, L'Marie
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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