First National Bank, exterior, following robbery, with people gathered, Arcadia, 1922

Item Overview

Title

First National Bank, exterior, following robbery, with people gathered, Arcadia, 1922

Date Created

1922

Date

1922

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Related to 2 articles: (1) "Nab Four For Bank Robbery, Mexicans Are Taken After One Hour’s Chase, First National of Arcadia Out Five Thousand, Cashier Saves Institution from Greater Loss." Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 1922. Print. The article states: "… That the four men are members of the band that held up and robbed the Bank of Alhambra Tuesday afternoon and escaped with $700 in cash was asserted by the arresting officers …" (2) "Outlaws Raid Alhambra Bank, Armed Men Grab Cash and Escape to City, Seven Hundred Dollars is Taken from Cage, Robbers Force Autoists to Help Their Flight." Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 1922. Print.
About 23 people, mostly children, standing on sidewalk in front of First National Bank, some gathered in a group, posing, one boy jumping with arms raised, with car at right
Negative severely damaged

Caption

Handwritten on negative: 1st Nat Bk of Alhambra
Text from negative sleeve: California--Alhambra, bank robbery

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

First National Bank (Arcadia, Calif.)
Bank of Alhambra (Alhambra, Calif.)

Location

Arcadia (Calif.)
Alhambra (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Bank robberies--California--Arcadia
Events
Disaster
Bank robberies--California--Alhambra
Crime