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Title: Crowded tank at Lincoln Heights jail
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: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: This tank in Lincoln Heights jail was jammed with arrestees who insisted on getting their Christmas spirit out of a bottle. The arrestees were booked on drunk driving, drunk in auto or just plain drunk charges. Photo dated December 25, 1951.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00043749
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 255
CARL0000060926
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/14933
Subject: Los Angeles City Jail (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Alcoholics--California--Los Angeles
Jails--California--Los Angeles
Men--California--Los Angeles
Interiors--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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