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Title
Sailors at Terminal Island Prison
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1942
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
This is the entrance to the receiving station (former Terminal Island Prison) on April 18, 1942. Through these automatic-locking doors, which once admitted such gangsters as Al Capone, have passed thousands of sailors and marines en route to permanent ship or shore assignments. The station, which is the first prison ever commissioned as a receiving ship, has a capacity of 2500 men.
Type
Image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00050799
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 7777
CARL0000054983
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/23565
Subject
Terminal Island Federal Prison (Los Angeles, Calif.)
United States.--Navy
Prisons--California--Terminal Island
Sailors--United States
World War, 1939-1945
Terminal Island (Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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