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Title
Woman who discovered the body
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1947
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
Elizabeth Short's murder is referred to as the "Black Dahlia" case. Pictured here holding the telephone is the woman, Mrs. John Bersinger, who was walking by a vacant lot and discovered the body.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00010445
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 11497-Short, Elizabeth.
CARL0000012401
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/8375
Subject
Bersinger, Betty
Murder--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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