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Title: Weapons in youth gang war
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Ballew, Howard
Date Created and/or Issued: 1951
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Detective W. D. Knapp holds an axe handle and a 2x4 spiked with rusty nail as he questions four youths seized as police said they prevented a flareup of youth gang war near Polytechnic High School. Salvatore Esquer and Salvatore Guiterrez, left to right on bench, were arrested. Two juveniles at right were arrested. Photo dated: August 18, 1951.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00058220
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1993.
CARL0000061198
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/22801
Subject: Weapons
Gangs
Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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