Dorothy Thompson meets with Roy Pilling, Director, Los Angeles County Relief Administration, Los Angeles, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Dorothy Thompson meets with Roy Pilling, Director, Los Angeles County Relief Administration, Los Angeles, 1935

Date Created

May 21, 1935

Date

1935-05-21

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Possibly related to the article, "Sentences Given Four: Relief Chiselers Sent to Jail S.E.R.A. Workers Ordered to Make Restitutions and Serve 180 Days," Los Angeles Times, 22 May 1935: A1
From left to right, Dorothy Thompson (Mrs. Sinclair Lewis) and Roy Pilling (Directory, Los Angeles County Relief Administration) sit side-by-side behind a desk. The desk stretches across the lower left corner. Dorothy Thompson faces and looks towards the camera. Beside her, Roy Pilling sits behind his desk and casts his gaze downward towards a folder of documents. Office walls stand across the background. A map of Los Angeles County hangs from the wall at center, behind Dorothy.

Caption

Handwritten on negative: L 2 R Mrs. Sinclair Lewis (Dorothy Thompson) Roy Pilling 5-21-35
Text from negative sleeve: LEWIS, SINCLAIR MRS. 1935

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Pilling, Roy W., 1886-1937
Thompson, Dorothy, 1893-1961

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Meetings--California--Los Angeles
Journalists--American--California--Los Angeles
Government officials--American--California--Los Angeles