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Title: Leland M. Ford as County Supervisor, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: April 15, 1936
1936-04-15
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.
Mr. Ford was elected yesterday with congratulations, speeches and flowers. He will finish Quinn's term, which will end in December, and will be running for primary election in August.
Photograph appears with the article, "Leland Ford Takes Post," Los Angeles Times, 07 Apr 1936: A1.
Wide-eyed, Ford throws up a hand in protest as several men surround him offering him sheets of paper.
Text from negative sleeve: 4834 - Supervisor Leland M Ford [stamped:] Apr 15 1936
Text from newspaper caption: Appointed by Gov. Merriam to succeed John R. Quinn as County Supervisor. Leland M. Ford yesterday took oath of his new office. He is pictured shortly after he began his new job.
Handwritten on negative: Leland M. Ford
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_14073
ark:/21198/zz002j7ktg
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Supervisors
Ford, Leland M., 1893-1965
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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