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Title: Elizabeth Short's fingerprints
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1947
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 used for article dated January 18, 1987.
Elizabeth Short, also known as the Black Dahlia after her death, was identified after her fingerprints were sent to the FBI by the Los Angeles Examiner.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00081699
Herald Examiner Collection
SCHH_b003_f4_i6
CARL0000080991
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/24912
Subject: Short, Elizabeth,--1924-1947--Death and burial
Fingerprints
Murder--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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