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Title: Hero congratulated
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
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: 1950
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 November 27, 1950 reads, "Police Chief William H. Parker, right, offers congratulations to Victor Perry of Van Nuys who risked his life and was wounded in leg while wresting gun from suspect who battled with Officer R. L. Burns, center. Perry is recovering from leg wound in Santa Monica Hospital."
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00136148
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d043_f13_i27
CARL0005638338
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/66521
Subject: Parker, William H.--(William Henry),--1902-1966
Police chiefs--California--Los Angeles
Police--California--Santa Monica
Men--California--Santa Monica
Men--Wounds and injuries--California--Santa Monica
Leg--Wounds and injuries--California--Santa Monica
Gunshot wounds--California--Santa Monica
Handshaking--California--Santa Monica
Hospitals--California--Santa Monica
Santa Monica (Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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