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Title: Jamaica ginger, poison liquor
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 U.S. Marshall Al Settel, breaking bottles of Jamaica ginger. Several cases of paralysis and blindness was caused by drinking the poisoned liquor. Photo dated: June 26, 1931.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00036702
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 549-C.
CARL0000039379
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/11529
Subject: Prohibition--California--Los Angeles
Liquors--California--Los Angeles
Crime--California--Los Angeles
Paralysis
Blindness
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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