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Title
Remains of Bugsy Siegel at Los Angeles County morgue
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1947
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 dated June 25, 1947 shows the corpse Bugsy Siegel, who was murdered by a gunman in Beverly Hills. Cotton has been placed inside the bullet wounds in his head.
Type
Image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00010109
Herald Examiner Collection
HE-000-924 4x5; SCHE_b004_f2_i8
CARL0004957903
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/8129
Subject
Siegel, Bugsy,--1906-1947--Death and burial
Morgues--California--Los Angeles
Dead persons--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Postmortem photographs
Time Period
1941-1950

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