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Title
Cots inside of a room at the Federal Prison at Los Angeles Harbor, June 1938
Date Created and/or Issued
1938-06
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of cots inside of a room at the Federal Prison at Los Angeles Harbor, June 1938. A dozen cots with neatly-made beds and trunks underneath them can be seen from the left foreground towards the right background. A second row can be seen parallel to the first and is visible from the right foreground into the right background. Round light fixtures can be seen on the ceiling, while windows are visible through grates in the left background. A door can be seen beyond the cots in the right background.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m18615 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-37064
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m18615
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-37064.jpg
Subject
Jails
Prisons
Los Angeles--Prisons
Los Angeles County Jail
Correctional facilities
Time Period
1938-06
Place
Buena Vista and Temple Streets
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
37064 [Accession number]
CHS-37064 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
USC
chs-m825

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