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Officers S. F. Carter and J. V. Anderson pose with unclaimed items for sale at the semi-annual police auction, Los Angeles, 1938

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Title: Officers S. F. Carter and J. V. Anderson pose with unclaimed items for sale at the semi-annual police auction, Los Angeles, 1938
Date Created and/or Issued: December 8, 1938
1938-12-08
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
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
From front to back, S. F. "Nick" Carter and J. V. Anderson, police officers, pose with unclaimed items up for auction at the semi-annual police auction. S. F. Carter sits in a wheelchair, off-center to the left. He plays a guitar and appears to sing. Directly behind him, J. V. Carter smiles to camera while holding onto a camera. Beside the officers, a large table enters frame at right and extends back towards center. It is cluttered with unclaimed property. Typewriters, vacuum cleaners, shoes, cameras, clocks and tennis rackets are some of the items that sit atop the table. Purses and a pair of ice skates hang above the table at right. Luggage sits in a stack beneath the table.
Related to the article, "Who Wants Electric Pants Presser or Wheel Chair?," Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 1938: 3
Handwritten on negative: 114 114 J. V. Anderson (rear) S. F. "Nick" Carter 12/8/
Text from negative sleeve: 7358 -- J. V. Anderson, S. F. "Nick" Carter ) policemen semi-annual Police auction of unclaimed items 12/8/38 [stamped:] DEC 1[?] [1]938
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_14600
ark:/21198/zz002j870p
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Police--California--Los Angeles
Auctions--California--Los Angeles
Found property
Carter, Sheldon Francis, 1887-1979
Anderson, John V., 1899 or 1900
Los Angeles (Calif.). Police Department
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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