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Fred Davis, winner of Irish Sweep smiles at his good luck, San Pedro, 1936

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Title: Fred Davis, winner of Irish Sweep smiles at his good luck, San Pedro, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: May 24, 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 insert that accompanies this photograph says “City Desk TIMES: Here’s a negative of Fred Davis, San Pedro man who drew ‘Precipitation’ in the Irish Sweeps. Waldo Drake requested the negative. Its [sic] undeveloped. He’s got the story. –Herm Wilson, Matson Line. 1936”. The Item Ark for this insert is 21198/zz002j7vst.
Photograph of Fred Davis, winner of Irish Sweeps. He wears a hat that says in English “Railway Express Agency”.
This photograph appears with the article, “AMERICANS WIN HEAVILY ON ‘SWEEPS’: Awards Total $956,880 Thirty in Southland Among 432 Fortunates in First-Day Drawing,” Los Angeles Times, 24 May 1936: 1.
Text from newspaper caption: Fred Davis
Text from negative sleeve: 5463—Fred Davis, Irish Sweepstakes winner, [Stamped:] MAY 27 1936
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_14302
ark:/21198/zz002j7vqs
Language: No linguistic content
English
Subject: Hats
Smiling
Uniforms
Railroad employees
Davis, Fred, b. 1893?
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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