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- Title
- Seek 3 gunmen who robbed Burbank store
- Alternative Title
- Valley Times Photo Collection
- Contributor
- This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
- Date Created and/or Issued
- 1949
- Contributing Institution
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Los Angeles Public Library
- Collection
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Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
- Rights Information
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Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
- Description
- Photograph article dated December 6, 1949 partially reads, "Three armed bandits, who robbed a Burbank liquor store of $185, were being sought today. Harold W. Palmer, 40, and his wife Agnes, were in their store at 533 S. Victory Blvd. late last night, they told police, when the three men entered, ordered whisky, then pulled their guns. One of them guarded Mrs. Palmer in a rear room, one stood lookout at the front door and the third took the cash and two bottles of liquor before they escaped in an old model coupe." Photograph caption reads, "Holdup victim - Robert E. Mahan, liquor truck driver, tells Officer J. W. Dougherty of Valley Division of $6000 hijacking of load and kidnaping by two men."
- Type
- image
- Format
- 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
- Identifier
- 00134046
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d040_f16_i26
CARL0005583483
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/64281
- Subject
- Robbery investigation--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Robbery--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Kidnapping victims--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Truck drivers--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Liquor stores--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Police--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Men--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs
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