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Title: War weapons
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Creator: Steele, Bob
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1954
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 was edited for publication purposes
Photograph caption dated September 22, 1954 reads, "Lu Hunter sets up Japanese 6.5 mm. light machine gun, model of 1936. In background are British Sten gun; German Schmeisser, called a machine pistol in Germany but known in America as a tommy-gun; German aircraft machine gun with saddle drum magazine; German Maxim heavy machine gun; Russian 7.62 mm. Burp gun and British tank machine gun."; See images #00127372 through #00127380 for all photos in this series.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00127378
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d032_f35_i11
CARL0005445223
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/59062
Subject: Firearms--Collectors and collecting--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Firearms--Private collections--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Firearms--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)--Exhibitions
Firearms--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Machine guns--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Men--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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