Name/Title
A cabinet photograph, Francis Jones Carpenter, Los Angeles Police Department Officer, 1879Entry/Object ID
2016.331.1.1Description
A cabinet card photograph, Francis Jones Carpenter, Los Angeles Police Department Officer, 1879. Carpenter is shown wearing his police uniform with the nine-button coat, hand-tooled leather belt, the tasseled club, his stove pipe hat with piping, and, of course, his eight-pointed badge. The image was taken by the Helio Art Studio of Tuttle and Parker in the Temple Block of Los Angeles. An ink inscription at the top of the photograph includes Carpenter's name and and that he was born in 1820. On the reverse, his death date is given as May of 1894. The photograph is in poor condition due to foxing, moderate water staining on reverse, discoloration,edge abrasion, surface soiling.Lexicon
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Object Name
Cabinet Card Photographs