Auctioneer Dean S. Bedilion at a Public Administrator's auction, Los Angeles, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Auctioneer Dean S. Bedilion at a Public Administrator's auction, Los Angeles, 1935

Date Created

August 8, 1935

Date

1935-08-08

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

This photograph is very similar to another one of Dean S. Bedilion that appeared in "Effects of Former Film Couple Spur Bids at Sale," Los Angeles Times, 09 Aug 1935: A1. In the newspaper photograph Bedilion holds dishes instead of a chair.
Auctioneer Dean S. Bedilion holds up a chair in front of a crowd at the Public Administrator's auction in Los Angeles. He stands on a raised platform in front of a metal fence in the Public Administrator's storeroom.
Related to "Gems of Mabel Normand and Lew Cody Auctioned," Los Angeles Times, 09 Aug 1935: A1.

Caption

Handwritten on negative: Auctioneer Dean S. Bedilion, 8-8-35
Handwritten on negative sleeve: 1534. Dean S. Bedilion. Auctioneer 8-8-35 [stamped:] Aug 14 1935
Text accompanying similar photograph in Los Angeles Times: Dean S. Bedilion, auctioneer, shown holding up dishes before bidders yesterday at auction conducted by order of Ben H. Brown, Los Angeles County Public Administrator. He auctioned effects from forty-eight estates. Articles ranging from napkin rings to automobiles. These included battered "flivvers" as well as expensive limousines.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
cellulose nitrate film

Names

Bedilion, Dean S. (Dean Stanley), 1889-1974

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Auctions--California--Los Angeles
Auctioneers--California--Los Angeles