Deputy Sheriff Garrett Morford, Captain John Hanby, Deputy Sheriff Hearst, Captain Walter Allen, and Undersheriff Arthur Jewell drag a tar pit for the body of missing girl, La Brea Pits, Los Angeles, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Deputy Sheriff Garrett Morford, Captain John Hanby, Deputy Sheriff Hearst, Captain Walter Allen, and Undersheriff Arthur Jewell drag a tar pit for the body of missing girl, La Brea Pits, Los Angeles, 1935

Date Created

October 1935

Date

1935-10

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

The reflections of the men can be seen on the surface of the tar pit. Deputy Sheriff Morford holds a rope descending beneath the surface, and Captain Hanby and Deputy Sheriff Hearst hold the remaining length of the rope. Captain Allen crouches along the grassy edge of the pit and Undersheriff Jewell points at the surface.
The Sheriff's office toils on the brink of La Brea tar pit No. 13 in search of the body of 19-year-old Mary Alice Bernard, missing from home since early October.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Body of Missing Girl Sought in La Brea Pits," Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct 1935: 1.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 2695 - Sheriffs searching La Brea pits hunting lost girl [stamped:] Nov 4- 1935

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Allen, Walter C., b. 1886
Morford, Garrett, 1896-1963
Jewell, Arthur C., 1877-1962
Hanby, John W., 1882-1959
Hearst, (Deputy Sheriff)

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Police--California--La Brea Pits
Missing persons--California--La Brea Pits
Ropes
La Brea Pits (Calif.)