Portret van Bernard Landau, anonymous, 1932

Title(s)

Portret van Bernard Landau

Object type

• photograph

Object number

RP-F-2018-1-17

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription: ‘ACME NEWSPICTURES::::SANFRANCISCO BUREAU:::::SF3350 LOSES $100.000 IN JEWEL ROBBERY A national clicque of gem robbers, familiar with the movement and sale of large jewels, is believed responsible/ for robbing Bernard Landau (above) New York juwelry salesman of gems worth $100.000 in San Francisco hotel. Landau, after extreme caution in forwarding the gems by express and placing them in safety deposit boxes, had the gems in his hotel room to show some prospective purchasers, when two men entered, bound, gagged and robbed him. (BURHAUS) 4-9-32’
• inscription: ‘REF. DEPT./ APR 12 1932/ N.E.A.’
• number: ‘17 20466’

Artist

• photographer: anonymous
• photographer: ACME Newspictures Inc. (mentioned on object)
• Newspaper Enterprise Association (mentioned on object)

Place

United States of America

Dating

1932

Material

• baryta paper

Technique

gelatin silver print

Measurements

height c. 217 mm × width c. 166 mm
height 206 mm × width 157 mm

What

• historical persons
• adult man

Who

• Bernard Landau

Acquisition

purchase 1-Feb-2018

Copyright

Public domain