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[Evidence, including a "death mask" of a slain guard, used in trial of convicts who made a failed escape attempt from Alcatraz Prison]

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Title: [Evidence, including a "death mask" of a slain guard, used in trial of convicts who made a failed escape attempt from Alcatraz Prison]
Date Created and/or Issued: 1938 Nov. 23
Contributing Institution: San Francisco Public Library
Collection: San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection
Rights Information: Permission to use this image must be obtained from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library: www.sfpl.org/permissions.
Description: Folder: S.F. Islands-Alcatraz-Prison Breaks-May, 1938.
Permission to use this image must be obtained from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library: www.sfpl.org/permissions.
Written on back: "Death mask of slain guard R. C. Cline, hammers. Hammers + knives found in model shop - around death mask.
Type: image
Extent: 1 photographic print:
Subject: Islands--Alcatraz--Prison Breaks--May, 1938
San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs

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