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Title: Evidence for trunk murder case
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1931
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Photograph was edited for publication purposes.; Photograph included in the exhibit: “Edited for Publication: Photographic Manipulations in the Los Angeles Herald Examiner”
Shown are two trunks (middle trunk missing from photo). Trunk on left contained portions of mutilated body of Miss Hedvig Samuelson. Trunk on right contained Mrs. Agnes Ann Leroi's body intact, except for bullet wounds and terrible beating about the face. Photograph dated October 22, 1931.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00054705
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 3920
CARL0000059637
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/21432
Subject: Trunks (Luggage)
Murder
Crime
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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