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Title: Black Dahlia murder scene
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: Photograph is a copy print.
The body of murder victim Elizabeth Short is shown covered in a field in Leimert Park. The murder is referred to as the "Black Dahlia" case.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00010486
Herald Examiner Collection
SCHH_b003_f4_i5; HE-000-088 4x5
CARL0000013116
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/8474
Subject: Short, Elizabeth,--1924-1947--Death and burial
Murder victims--California--Los Angeles
Murder--California--Los Angeles
Cold cases (Criminal investigation)--California--Los Angeles
Dismemberment--California--Los Angeles
Leimert Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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