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. Story related to photograph appears with the article, "New Dollar Club Raided," Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec 1935: A7. Building custodian and manager A. J. Gahring and cashier Joe L. White were booked during the raid. The club operated an own-your-home proposition where a $1 deposit was put down and was supposed to increase so much so as the person would be able to buy their own home. More than fifty persons were in the establishment at the time of the raid. Sherriff Humphries, Investigator MacDowell and Mr. Gahring are half-bent over tables as they examine papers. Other people are seen in the background exiting the room. Handwritten on negative: LtR Dep. Sherriff Tom Humphries D. A. Inves. John MacDowell A. J. Gahring 12-14-35 Text from negative sleeve: 4108 - D. A. Inves. John Macdonnell A. J. Gahring Joe White Noreen Harwood Basil C. Yergin Dp. Sherriff Tom Humphries 12-14-35 Raid at 8115 1/2 Seville St. [stamped:] Dec 20 1935
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_13115 ark:/21198/zz002hn7x5
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Law enforcement--California--South Gate Police raids--California--South Gate Typewriters MacDonald, John Gahring, A. J Humphries, Tom, $c(Deputy Sherriff)
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