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Title: Alice Blake, victim in "love market"
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1931
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: Photo shows Alice Blake, 16, one of the asserted victims of the alleged Hollywood "love market." Alice Blake and Helen Livingston's confessions that they had been "sold" for $200 each to a nationally known Los Angeles multimillionaire and a weatlhy San Diego man for a gay week-end party, were revealed by the district attorney's office. The girls were taken to San Diego for the party, according to their asserted detailed confessions. Photo dated: March 10, 1931.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00046586
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 3600.
CARL0000050967
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/16704
Subject: Fitts, Buron,--1895-1973
Jobelmann, William
Blake, Alice
Livingston, Helen
Mills, John P
Pantages, Alexander
Shreve, Jesse
Crime--California--San Diego
Lawyers--California--San Diego
Trials--California--San Diego
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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