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Title: Poison rum victims
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1930
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 of a victim showing effects of benzine blisters to clinic attendant. Effects of the booze, which appear several days after liquor is drunk, are devasting to the hands, mouth and feet. About seventy victims have been treated for "blister booze." Photo dated: May 27, 1930.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00036688
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 549-C.
CARL0000039365
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/11522
Subject: Prohibition--California--Los Angeles
Liquors--California--Los Angeles
Crime--California--Los Angeles
Poisons
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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