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Title
Post Office safe yields cash, money, money orders to thieves
Alternative Title
Valley Times Photo Collection
Creator
Dean, Gordon
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
1960
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 August 3, 1960 reads, "Van Nuys Detective P. G. MacRobbie dusts door for fingerprints." Burglars broke into safe at the Village Valley branch Post Office in North Hollywood.
Type
Image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00118437
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d022_f10_i11
CARL0005375521
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/52035
Subject
United States Postal Service
Men--California--Los Angeles
Detectives--California--Los Angeles
Robberies--California--Los Angeles
Safes
Fingerprints--Identification
Boxes--California--Los Angeles
Post offices--California--North Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Government facilities--California--North Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Interiors--California--North Hollywood (Los Angeles)
North Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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