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Title: Judge Douglas Edmonds and Judge Edward Bishop, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: January 3, 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.
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.
Photograph appears with the article, "Judges Don Black Robes," Los Angeles Times, 03 Jan 1936: A1.
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
Courthouses--California--Los Angeles
Judges--California--Los Angeles
Edmonds, Douglas Lyman, 1886-1962
Bishop, Edward T., 1884-1969
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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