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Title: Mysterious Mr. Q, stage hypnotist
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1939
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: Photo of "Mr. Q", Robert M. Goodwin, a 57-year-old stage hypnotist. Arrow points him out standing beside Gloria Graves, the young woman whom he planned a "buried alive" act. Miss Graves lived in a lighted and ventilated casket underground for 14 days in November 1935, before police dug her up.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00030169
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 5731.; HE-001-343 4x5
CARL0000033977
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/10745
Subject: Goodwin, Robert M
Crime--California--Los Angeles
Tricks--California--Los Angeles
Hypnotism
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Graves, Gloria

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