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Title
Ten arrested in Bell carnival raid
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1951
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
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Description
Shown awaiting arraignment in East Los Angeles Justice Court are eight men and two women arrested on charges of gambling, or fortune telling in a raid by sheriff's vice squad on a carnival in Bell. Left to right, front row: Mrs. Elizabeth Davis, Mrs. Olga Cooper, Joe Thorp, and Samuel Lasky; back row, Ezie Sherman, John C. O'Kelly, Richard Thornton, William Hunnicutt, William Sallust and Erwin Seif. Photo dated: November 5, 1951.
Type
Image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00039612
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1065.
CARL0000043266
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/15167
Subject
Gambling--California--Bell
Gambling and crime--California--Bell
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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