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Title: Victim of $300,000 robbery
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Creator: Smothers, Jerry
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: 1956
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
Photograph caption dated December 17, 1956 reads, "David Gurfein, left, tells FBI agent about harrowing ride with kidnapers [sic] who robbed him of jewels valued at $300,000. Victim was abducted from Lockheed Air Terminal."; See images #00146696 through #00146697 for all photos in this series.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00146696
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d056_f16_i9
CARL0005892041
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/74374
Subject: United States.--Federal Bureau of Investigation
Crime--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Kidnapping--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Robbery--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Victims of crimes--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Kidnapping victims--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Jewelers--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Men--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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