Image / David Plumpton teaches apprentice Robert Tobiasson about diamond mountings, Los Angeles, 1936

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Title: David Plumpton teaches apprentice Robert Tobiasson about diamond mountings, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: March 15, 1936
1936-03-15
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.
This photograph appears with the photospread titled, “Los Angeles Lapidaries Furnish America with Rarest and Most Exquisitely Set Gems,” Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 1936: A1.
Text from negative sleeve: 4482—David Plumpton, Robert Tobiasson, Diamond Cutting in LA. 3/1/36. [Stamped:] MAR 25 1936.
Handwritten on negative: David Plumpton, Robert Tobiasson.
Text from newspaper caption: Under the skillful instructions of David Plumpton, left, oldest diamond polisher in the trade. Robert Tobiasson, 20-year-old apprentice, is learning to distinguish various cuts of diamonds and their mountings.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_13683
ark:/21198/zz002hnxj4
Subject: Diamonds--California--Los Angeles
Jewelry making--California--Los Angeles
Jewelers--California--Los Angeles
Tobiasson, Robert, b.1915
Plumpton, David, 1857-1937
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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