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Title: Policemen dressed as women for a stakeout
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1960
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: Title supplied by cataloger.
Members of the Los Angeles Police Department's robbery squad are shown dressed as women as part of an operation to catch a purse snatcher who murdered an elderly woman while she was on her way to church. Photograph dated October 15, 1960.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;29 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00084285
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 255
CARL0002884637
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/25978
Subject: Los Angeles (Calif.).--Police Department
Female impersonators--California--Los Angeles
Police--California--Los Angeles
Undercover operations--California--Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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