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Title: Shoplifting, the silent war
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1970
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: Title supplied by cataloger.
Photograph caption dated November 27, 1970 reads, "Above, models reconstruct last stage of a shoplifting incident in a downtown Los Angeles department store. The reenaction shows how close the real thieves came to making away with "stuffed" purses. Security guard caught them only a few feet away from their car."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;18 x 25 cm. on board 25 x 25 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00099500
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 59
CARL0005109893
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/30331
Subject: Retail trade--Security measures--California--Los Angeles
Shoplifting--California--Los Angeles
Shopping--California--Los Angeles
Streets--California--Los Angeles
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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