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Title: Dumping confiscated liquor
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1929
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Photograph was edited for publication purposes.
Photo of John L. McDonnell of the District Attorney's office enforcement squad, and Pearl Stephenson, secretary to Chief Investigator Lucien Wheeler. McDonnell is dumping down a sink, $45,000 worth of bootleg liquor seized by the squad and used as evidence in liquor arrest cases. Photo dated: February 16, 1929.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00036683
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 549-C
CARL0000039360
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/11508
Subject: McDonnell, John L
Stephenson, Pearl
Prohibition--United States
Liquors--California--Los Angeles
Crime--California--Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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