Examiner (San Francisco) Photograph Archive Negative Files, circa 1930-2000
Lower 13 Pullman Car murder., 1943-01-27
- Containers:
- Box 894, Sleeve 124494.03
- Identifier:
- BANC PIC 2006.029--NEG
- Dates:
- 1943-01-27
- Creators:
- Sheldon
- Scope and content:
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Copy negatives. Includes Ensign Richard James, Investigator C.W. Champlin, State Patrolman Clyde Lowry, Private Harold Wilson, Dr. George Adler, Sheriff Herbert Shelton, Deputy Clay Kirk, Private Harold H. Wilson and John Funches. Note enclosed in sleeve: Murder Captions: 1. Murder car - picture of the car in which Mrs. James was murdered. An excited group of passengers gather in the foreground to discuss the event. Mrs. James' berth was located at the second group of windows from the left (rear) of the coach. 2. Ensign James is informed of his wife's death - this picture was taken at the Southern Pacific railroad station at 1:30PM Saturday when Ensign Richard Jones was informed of the tragic slaying of his wife on the train following his. 3. Witness with coroner - Private Harold Wilson smiles as he talks with Klamath county coroner Dr. George Adler before being held as a material witness in the murder of Mrs. Richard James. 4. Material witnesses returned - Linn county sheriff Hervert Shelton left and deputy Clay Kirk boarded the northbound train Monday en route to Albany taking as material witness in the case Private Harold R> Wilson and John Funches, negro waiter on the death train.
Access and use
- Parent restrictions:
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AVAILABLE BY APPOINTMENT ONLY. SOME PORTIONS RESTRICTED.
Boxes 1-218: Restricted due to handling and transportation hazards. UNAVAILABLE FOR USE. For Boxes 1-30 and Boxes 70-96 a sleeve-level listing is available in the library.
Boxes 219-3198: Available by appointment only. Advance notice required for use.
- Parent terms of access:
- Copyright to photographs taken by staff photographers of the San Francisco Examiner in this collection has been assigned to the University of California Regents. Only the photographs created by these staff photographers in this collection are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The following attribution is required for all uses of these photographs: "Fang family San Francisco examiner photograph archive © The Regents of the University of California, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. This work is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license."
- Location of this collection:
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University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft LibraryBerkeley, CA 94720-6000, US
- Contact:
- 510-642-6481