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Title: Joe E. Brown robbed at gunpoint
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1938
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 July 25, 1938 reads, "Admitting he was "a little scared" when a gun was shoved at him, Joe E. Brown, wide-mouthed film comedian, is shown today in court where Harry Duke, 26, was ordered held for trial on a charge of robbing Brown."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00092203
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 39
CARL0004993910
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/28329
Subject: Brown, Joe E.--(Joe Evan),--1892-1973
Motion picture actors and actresses--United States
Comedians--United States
Victims of crimes--California--Los Angeles
Mugging victims--California--Los Angeles
Assault and battery--California--Los Angeles
Courts--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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