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Title
Women in prison
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1942
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.
Written on verso is, "L-R, Dora Barrios, Frances Silva, and Lorena Eucinas. Mexican gangsterettes held in slaying." The women were being held in connect with the August 1942 death of Jose Diaz, also known as the Sleepy Lagoon murder.
Type
Image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00019364
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 9710; HE-002-066 4x5
CARL0000022732
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/8639
Subject
Barrios, Dora
Silva, Frances
Eucinas, Lorena
Sleepy Lagoon Trial, Los Angeles, Calif., 1942-1943
Young women--California--Los Angeles
Trials (Murder)--California--Los Angeles
Female offenders--California--Los Angeles
Jails--California--Los Angeles
Criminals--California--Los Angeles
Group portraits
Portrait photographs
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Time Period
1941-1950

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