Sheriff Frederick P. Dickerson shows stolen goods to H. L. Sisley, Ray Greeley, Mrs. L.E. Armstrong, and George Morrison, Florence, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Sheriff Frederick P. Dickerson shows stolen goods to H. L. Sisley, Ray Greeley, Mrs. L.E. Armstrong, and George Morrison, Florence, 1935

Date Created

October 1935

Date

1935-10

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Six young people have been arrested after a period of more than seven weeks of burglaries from service stations, restaurants, and drug stores, culminating in $3000 of petty cash and merchandise.
Boxes of goods, some clearly displaying labels of cigars, cigarettes, dental paste, and tobacco are strewn across the table, Sheriff Dickerson holding out a package to the drug store owners who examine the goods.
Photograph appears with the article, "Six Youths Rounded Up," Los Angeles Times, 09 Oct 1935: 8.

Caption

Text from newspaper caption: Victims of a band of suspected boy burglars yesterday gathered at the Florence Sheriff's substation to view plunder recovered by city and county officers. Left to right are Deputy Sheriff F. P. Dickerson, Ray Greeley, Mrs. L. E. Armstrong, H. L. Sisley and George Morrison.
Handwritten on negative: L2R Dep Sher. F. P. Dickerson x Ray Greeley x Mrs L. E. Armstrong x H.L. Sisley x Geo. Morrison 10-8-35
Text from negative sleeve: 2449 - Dep shr. F.P. Dickerson Ray Greeley Mrs L.E. Armstrong H.L. Sisley Geo. Morrison Drug Store Owners identify their goods found on Burglary Gang 10-8-35 [stamped:] Oct 15 1935

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Morrison, George
Sisley, H. L.
Greeley, Ray
Armstrong, L. E., (Mrs.)
Dickerson, Frederick Paul, b. 1901 or 03

Location

Florence (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Police--California--Florence
Robberies--California--Florence