Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. This photograph appears in the photospread, “’Call a Messenger!,’” Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 1938: F8 Harold Tolley, a Western Union messenger, is viewed close-up while wearing a look of surprise on his face. Text from newspaper caption: "Whee!" Even a messenger boy can be surprised. Harold Tolley, No. 6, Civic Center branch, got an assignment to climb out of one window and into another to unlock a door locked on the inside, and, when he saw the distance to the ground, was he surprised! [Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 1938: F8]
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_14840 ark:/21198/zz002j8h8p
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Messengers--California--Los Angeles Surprise Tolley, Harold Wesley, b. 1919 Western Union Telegraph Company
Source
OpenUCLA Collections Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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