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Title
Suspects seized in raid on 'Health Institute
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1951
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
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Description
Three women were booked on morals charges after Deputy Sheriffs raided an Inglewood "Health Institute." Defendants left to right: Lucille Howard, 52; Diane Martin, 27, and Helen Davis, 26. Other women are officials. Officers said Miss Martin and Miss Davis posed as nurses and Miss Howard was "the madame." Photo dated: May 26, 1951.
Type
Image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00036707
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 549-C.
CARL0000039384
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/11534
Subject
Crime--California--Los Angeles
Prostitution--California--Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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