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Title
Remains of Bugsy Siegel at Los Angeles County morgue
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
Photograph caption dated June 25, 1947 reads, "The identification tag attached to the big toe of Bugsy Siegel's right foot is pictured as the gang leader's body lay in the morgue, while a coroner's jury sought an answer to the question, 'Who killed Siegel?'"
Type
Image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00010121
Herald Examiner Collection
HE-000-014 4x5; SCHE_b004_f2_i10
CARL0004957904
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/8121
Subject
Siegel, Bugsy,--1906-1947--Death and burial
Morgues--California--Los Angeles
Dead persons--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Postmortem photographs
Time Period
1941-1950

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