Remembering an Early Times Photographer

Posted on January 18, 2010 by lmharnisch
Jan. 13, 1910, Grandstands
Photograph by Martin E. “M.E.” Rafert, Los Angeles Times

The field at the Aviation Meet, Jan. 13, 1910.

May 28, 1942, M.E. Rafert In going through The Times’ photos of the Aviation Meet, I discovered several with notations by Martin “M.E.” Rafert, a photographer for The Times from 1901 to 1912. I rarely encounter photos in the archives predating the October 1910 bombing of The Times Building, so this was a pleasant discovery.

At right, a few lines about Rafert in Lee Shippey’s Lee Side O’ L.A. Rafert died in 1943, but The Times didn’t publish an obituary on him.

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