David Plumpton teaches apprentice Robert Tobiasson about diamond mountings, Los Angeles, 1936

Title: David Plumpton teaches apprentice Robert Tobiasson about diamond mountings, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created: March 15, 1936
Date: 1936-03-15
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: This photograph appears with the photospread titled, “Los Angeles Lapidaries Furnish America with Rarest and Most Exquisitely Set Gems,” Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 1936: A1.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 4482—David Plumpton, Robert Tobiasson, Diamond Cutting in LA. 3/1/36. [Stamped:] MAR 25 1936.
Handwritten on negative: David Plumpton, Robert Tobiasson.
Text from newspaper caption: Under the skillful instructions of David Plumpton, left, oldest diamond polisher in the trade. Robert Tobiasson, 20-year-old apprentice, is learning to distinguish various cuts of diamonds and their mountings.

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Tobiasson, Robert, b.1915
Plumpton, David, 1857-1937
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Diamonds--California--Los Angeles
Jewelry making--California--Los Angeles
Jewelers--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_13683
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hnxj4
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Rights Country: US
Funding Note: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
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