Police Mona Rehling, James E. Davis, and Mabel D. Stevens show weapons ready for disarmament, Los Angeles, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Police Mona Rehling, James E. Davis, and Mabel D. Stevens show weapons ready for disarmament, Los Angeles, 1935

Date Created

July 19, 1935

Date

1935-07-19

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

This photograph appears with the article, “From Underworld to Ocean,” Los Angeles Times, 19 Jul. 1935: A12.

Caption

Handwritten on negative: Mona Rehling, Chief James. E. Davis, Mabel D. Stevens 7/11/35
Text from newspaper caption: A step toward disarmament, at least as far as the underworld is concerned, was taken yesterday as police gathered together more than $2000 worth of weapons, confiscated from lawbreakers, preparatory to dumping the arms into the ocean. Looking at the heap of weapons are, left to right, Policewoman Rehling, Chief of Police Davis and Policewoman Stevens. The Chief and Miss Stevens, incidentally, are among the champion gun-wielders of the department.
Text from negative sleeve: 1283—Mona Rehling (Policewoman), Chief. James. E. Davis, Mabel D. Stevens (Policewoman), Old Guns to be destroyed 7/11/35. [Stamped:] JUL 22 1935.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Stevens, Mabel D. 1896-1974
Davis, James E. (James Edgar), 1889-1949
Rehling, Mona 1901-1969

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Policewomen--California--Los Angeles
Firearms
Police--California--Los Angeles
Arms control