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Title: "Jake" paralysis
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
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: Photo shows Dr. George Parrish, City health officer (on right), testing the sight of Matthew M. Shirley who is said to be approaching blindness from "jake" paralysis. He's said to have imbibed Jamaica ginger and denatured alcohol. Photo dated: February 5, 1931.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00036691
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 549-C.
CARL0000039368
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/11516
Subject: Prohibition--California--Los Angeles
Liquors--California--Los Angeles
Crime--California--Los Angeles
Blindness
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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