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. Photograph appears with the article, "Judges Don Black Robes," Los Angeles Times, 03 Jan 1936: A1. The courtroom officials were sharply divided over the decision to consent to wearing robes or not, with many of the Judges offering their various opinions. The two Judges stand in conversation, wearing their long black robes and holding legal books. Handwritten on negative: Judge Edward Bishop Judge Douglas Edmonds Text from newspaper caption: Judge Bishop, presiding judge of the Superior Court for 1935, left, and Judge Edmonds, his successor for 1936, are shown in the flowing robes most members of the bench donned yesterday for the first time. Text from negative sleeve: 4353 - LtR - Judge Edward Bishop Judge Douglas Edmonds Judges gowns 1-2-36 [stamped:] Jan 7 1936
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_13519 ark:/21198/zz002hnqvw
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Robes Judges--California--Los Angeles Courthouses--California--Los Angeles Edmonds, Douglas Lyman, 1886-1962 Bishop, Edward T., 1884-1969
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