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Title: Northcott murder farm
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
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 included in the exhibit: “Edited for Publication: Photographic Manipulations in the Los Angeles Herald Examiner”
Prosecutors say Gordon Stewart Northcott carried bodies of his victims into this chicken house for burial. In the foreground is what officers say was the Winslow brothers' grave. The photo is taken from a grave said to be Walter Collins'. The farm is located near Mira Loma (once called Wineville).
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00027433
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 2207-Northcott case
CARL0000030230
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/9974
Subject: Graves--California--Mira Loma
Crime--California--Mira Loma
Murder--California--Mira Loma
Farms--California--Mira Loma
Mira Loma (Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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