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Title: Barbara hears the death sentence
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1953
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: Barbara Graham gazes straight ahead without a bit of emotion as she is led away from the courtroom by Deputy Sheriffs. She was sentenced to die in San Quentin's gas chamber for the murder of Mrs. Mabel Monohan. Outside the courtroom, Barbara broke into uncontrolled sobs.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00029967
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 732-Graham, Barbara.
CARL0000033680
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/7855
Subject: Graham, Barbara E
Perkins, Emmett
Santo, Jack
Los Angeles County (Calif.).--Sheriff's Department
California State Prison at San Quentin
Murder--California--Los Angeles
Sheriffs--California--Los Angeles
Capital punishment--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Monohan, Mabel

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