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Title: Sailors at Terminal Island Prison
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1942
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: Sailors are shown on February 3, 1942, lined up in front of some of the cells in the Terminal Island Federal Prison, which was commissioned on that date as a "United States Naval Receiving Ship." The prison was used to house naval recruits during World War II.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00050793
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 7777
CARL0000054977
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/23559
Subject: Terminal Island Federal Prison (Los Angeles, Calif.)
United States.--Navy
Prisons--California--Terminal Island
Sailors--United States
World War, 1939-1945
Terminal Island (Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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