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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 included in the Exhibit: All Rise! Hollywood & the Herald Go to Court.
Photograph caption dated July 25, 1938 reads, Covering his cavernous mouth with his large hand, Brown is pictured in court. The robbery took place in broad daylight in the heart of Hollywood.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00092204
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 39
CARL0004993911
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/33840
Subject: Brown, Joe E.--(Joe Evan),--1892-1973
Motion picture actors and actresses--United States
Comedians--United States
Assault and battery--California--Los Angeles
Victims of crimes--California--Los Angeles
Mugging victims--California--Los Angeles
Courts--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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