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. Morgan D. Griffith, brother of Griffith Park donator Colonel Griffith, immigrated to Los Angeles from Wales in 1884 to work successfully for the past 27 years as a chauffeur without any accidents. Photograph appears with the article, "Here's Real Safe Driver," Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec 1935: 5. Griffith casually sits on a stoop wearing a suit and petting a white dog with one black mark over its eye. Handwritten on negative: 134 134 Griffith- 12/13/35 Text from negative sleeve: 4135 - Morgan Griffith - Chaffeur for Supervisor Quinn 12/13/35 Boy 12 [stamped:] Dec 23 1935 Text from newspaper caption: Morgan D. Griffith, chauffeur for Supervisor Quinn, who has driven for twenty-seven years without even a minor accident.
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_13161 ark:/21198/zz002hn9hx
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Dogs--California--Los Angeles Chauffeurs--California--Los Angeles County Griffith, Morgan D., b. 1870
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