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Title: Inventory of uncut liquor valued at $62,000
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1931
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 shows Officer William Barry making inventory of uncut liquor valued at $62,000. Liquor was seized in a raid on a warehouse at Ninth Street and Long Beach Boulevard. Tony Carnero, notorious alleged bootlegger, was sought as police expressed belief that he had used the warehouse as a distributing depot. William Burton, caretaker of the warehouse, and Sylvanius Woolsey, driver of a truck assertedly loaded with Christmas liquor, were arrested by the raiders.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00036669
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 549-C.
CARL0000039346
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/11492
Subject: Prohibition--California--Los Angeles
Liquors--California--Los Angeles
Crime--California--Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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