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Title: $150,000 worth of liquor poured down drain
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1927
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: Attache´s of the Sheriff's office under Capt. James Benton, are pictured as they poured down the drain and out to sea $150,000 worth of liquor seized during the Christmas holidays. The liquor, including imported champagne and other choice liquors, represents 50,000 parties that never were. Photo dated: January 17, 1927.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00036686
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 549-C.; HE-002-659 4x5
CARL0000039363
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/11511
Subject: Prohibition--California--Los Angeles
Liquors--California--Los Angeles
Crime--California--Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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