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Title: Marijuana found in guitar case, Cafe Zombie
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 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: Joseph Adolphus Lewis was found with marijuana in his guitar case during a police round-up at the Cafe Zombie at 5434 South Central Avenue, in Los Angeles. Photo dated: March 31, 1947.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00036711
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 549-C.
CARL0000039388
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/11539
Subject: Cafe Zombie (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Prohibition--California--Los Angeles
Liquors--California--Los Angeles
Crime--California--Los Angeles
Marijuana
African American men--California--Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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