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Title: Hairy ape man
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1928
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: Authorities have termed Gordon Stewart Northcott an "ape man," and Sanford Clark has described him as being "covered with hair." The picture of a hairy ape man is the cover of a pamphlet describing books about primitive men. This is being investigated as clues to a possible "complex" of Northcott. The pamphlet was found in the Northcott home.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00027548
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 2207-Northcott case.
CARL0000030374
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/10098
Subject: Northcott, Gordon Stewart,--d. 1929
Crime--California--Los Angeles
Murder--California--Los Angeles
Hair
Boyle Heights (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Northcott, Sarah Louise,1868-

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