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Title: Cache of arms and deadly weapons
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1954
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: The deadly weapons you see on this table and the few held by policemen are ONLY A SMALL PART of the arsenal seized by officers in a mass shakedown of more than 2000 teenagers at the Coliseum last night. The frightening and shameful collection includes about 250 spring blade and long blade knives, a double-headed axe, a hatchet, ice picks, razors, hunks of iron pipe, fake pistols and bottles of liquor. Photo dated: May 22, 1954.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00058247
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 10135.
CARL0000060547
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/22112
Subject: Police
Teenagers
Weapons
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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