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Title: Rum raids in San Pedro
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1930
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Caption reads, "San Pedro police poured more than 4,000 gallons of confiscated booze down the gutter on a recent 'pouring day.' All of the liquor, including whiskey, wine, gin, beer, rum and alcohol, was seized in the harbor district-San Pedro, Wilmington, Terminal Island and Harbor City. Photo shows Capt. Daniel M. Long (in uniform), commander of the San Pedro police division, watching a trustee of the harbor jail pour out a barrel of whiskey. From Wheeler-San Pedro Correspondent."
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;10 x 12 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00074431
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 549.
CARL0000078275
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/27939
Subject: Los Angeles (Calif.).--Police Dept
Prohibition--United States
Temperance--California--Los Angeles
Police--California--Los Angeles
Alcoholic beverages
San Pedro (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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