Jack Jordan, doorman at the Biltmore Hotel raising a white flag to ward off pigeons, Los Angeles, 1935

Title: Jack Jordan, doorman at the Biltmore Hotel raising a white flag to ward off pigeons, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created: September 23, 1935
Date: 1935-09-23
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Photograph of doorman Jack Jordan replacing a white flag on top of a large metal lantern at the Biltmore Hotel. In the background is a building façade made of stone with an open window and some plants. There is also a car in a distance.
This photograph appears with the article, “Processing Tax Appeal Hearing Set for Today,” Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 1935: 3.
Caption: Handwritten on negative: Jack Jordan, 9-16-35.
Newspaper caption: Like a buoy warning ships off a reef, this white flag keeps doves and pigeons from impaling themselves on the lantern spike. Jack Jordan ran it up at the Biltmore yesterday.
Text from negative sleeve: 2237-Jack Jordan, Biltmore Doorman, 9-16-35. [Stamped:] Sep 26, 1935.

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_8672
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002dgkw0
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Rights Country: US
Funding Note: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
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