Joseph Blackburn Bass and staff of the California Eagle, 1932, Los Angeles

Photograph of Joseph Blackburn Bass (top row, left) with some of the California Eagle staff taken at the newspaper's offices in 1932. In the front row, from left, are Jesus Cano, compositor, smoking a cigar; William M. Solomon, printer; and Al Joseph, pressman. In the top row, from left, are Bass, editor-in-chief; Leon H. Washington, advertising manager; Loren Miller, city editor, and Samuel Hamilton, linotype operator. Linotype operators John Prowd and Max Williams, not included in the photograph, were also employed at the newspaper at this time. Bass was married to California Eagle publisher Charlotta Bass.