Adams Pharmacy ledger documenting the purchase of poison by Elmer M. Archer, Los Angeles, 1926
Item Overview
- Title
- Adams Pharmacy ledger documenting the purchase of poison by Elmer M. Archer, Los Angeles, 1926
- Date Created
- March 1926
- Date
- 1926-03
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Ledger documenting the purchase of sodium arsenate for 10 cents by Elmer M. Archer at the Adams Pharmacy in Santa Monica on January 24, 1926. Archer purchased the poison under the name Joe Jacks. Archer was in love with the newlywed Olive Orr Brugen-Schmidt and tried to convince her to poison her new husband, W. H. Bowers.
A photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Bowers appears with the article "Bride Denies Murder Plot; Says Plan to Poison Husband Was Only Joke; Man Confesses Part After Phone Talk Heard; Husband and Pastor Will be Questioned Today," Los Angeles Times, March 11, 1926 - Caption
- Text from negative sleeve: Bowers, W. H. & Wife. Poison Plot Case. 1926.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
forensic photographs - Names
- Archer, Elmer M., 1889-1966
- Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Crime
Business
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_1381
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002dbtrh
- Manifest url
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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 .