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Title: Body is taken from mortuary to morgue
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation.
Date Created and/or Issued: 1962
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: After Marilyn Monroe died, her remains were sent to the Westwood Village Mortuary (shown here). The circumstances of her death required that the body be transferred to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner for examination. Photograph caption reads, "Miss Monroe's body is wheeled out of the funeral home and taken to Coroner's office. Photograph dated August 6, 1962.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00033849
Herald Examiner Collection
SCHH_b001_f3_i20; HE-002-057 4x5
CARL0000035863
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/11200
Subject: Monroe, Marilyn,--1926-1962--Death and burial
Westwood Village Mortuary (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Funeral homes--California--Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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