Dueling challenger W. P. Blake, Los Angeles, 1933
Item Overview
- Title
- Dueling challenger W. P. Blake, Los Angeles, 1933
- Date Created
- 1933
- Date
- 1933
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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This photograph appears with the article “Trial on Anti-Dueling Law Charge Brings Conviction of Inventor Accused by Attorney, Duel Seeker Found Guilty, Verdict Carries Possibility of San Quentin Term, Request for Meeting with Pistols Sent Plaintiff, Defendant Denounces State Ban on Such Conflict.” Los Angeles Times, 17 June 1933: A2. The article states: … W.P. Blake, 53-year-old inventor, was … convicted … of challenging another person to a duel. The charge was brought against Blake by Herman Miller … who asserts he received a challenge from Blake to meet him in Griffith Park, there to fight a duel. … Two guns, exactly similar in appearance, were to be provided, one loaded, the other empty. Miller was to have his choice of the two weapons and the man who received the unloaded weapon was expected to die. … Blake … admitted writing the challenge but … believed it was the only way he could obtain justice. ...
W. P. Blake, in a courtroom in suit and tie, pencil in pocket, with one artificial eye, standing at desk or table, gesturing with right hand, left hand on large reference book with thumb indexes, with 2 empty chairs at left
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Names
- Blake, W. P., b. 1879 or 80
- Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Dueling--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
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uclamss_1429_1032
1032 - ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002dbdq6
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .