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Title
They beat me!
Alternative Title
Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor
This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued
1954
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
Caption dated January 13, 1954 reads, "Ratpack victim Arnold Blomberg, Finnish seaman and reindeer herder, identifies two of four men whom he said picked him up as hitchhiker, beat him, and threw him by roadside on Highway 99 near Castaic. Suspects are, left to right, Raymond Ramirez, 27, of La Crescenta, and Lorenzo Diaz, 21, Visalia."
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00113020
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d012_f33_i29
CARL0005283574
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/48870
Subject
Criminals--California--Los Angeles
Men--California--Los Angeles
Crime--California--Los Angeles
Group portraits
Portrait photographs
Valley Times Collection photographs

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