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Title: B-Girl suspects
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1940
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: Turning their faces away from the camera, three of the six alleged B-girls are shown December 14, 1940, after they were arrested with 11 men by members of the State Board of Equalization during a raid on Fifth Street liquor joints. They are held on charges of liquor law violations. The raid climaxed a week of investigation.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00044584
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 8515.
CARL0000048170
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/14777
Subject: Crime--California--Los Angeles
Criminals--California--Los Angeles
Female offenders--California--Los Angeles
Bars (Drinking establishments)--California--Los Angeles
Liquor laws--California--Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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