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Title: Radio used by rum runners
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 on left shows the sending and receiving apparatus at a radio station which Federal officers said to have assertedly flashed code messages to rum-running ships off Southern California and the coast. Radio station is said to have operated more than two years. Photo on the right was taken by a photographer who hid aboard a ship on rum row and shows a cargo of liquor and a crew waiting for sppedboats to carry the liquor to shore. Photo dated: December 11, 1931.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00036718
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 549-C.
CARL0000039396
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/11545
Subject: Prohibition--California--Los Angeles
Liquors--California--Los Angeles
Crime--California--Los Angeles
Radio stations--California--Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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