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Title: Test new instrument
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1959
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Photograph caption dated October 2, 1959 reads, "Burbank officer Ralph Posten, left, exhales into 'Breathalyzer' newly purchased blood alcohol test instrument as Capt. Robert Loranger holds mouthpiece. New test is recognized by courts and replaces Intoximeter method. New machine works on photo cell principle of light transmission through control tube and tube containing liquid exposed to drunk-test breath."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00115151
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d016_f29_i20
CARL0005308893
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/49021
Subject: Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.).--Police Department
Police--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Men--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Drunk driving--Prevention
Blood alcohol--Analysis
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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