Image / Policeman examines jail's 'escape-proof' windows through which prisoner escaped, Los Angeles, 1955

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Title: Policeman examines jail's 'escape-proof' windows through which prisoner escaped, Los Angeles, 1955
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1955-08-27
Publication Information: University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection: Los Angeles Examiner Collection, 1920-1961
Rights Information: Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
USC Libraries Special Collections
University of Southern California
specol@usc.edu
Description: Photograph. "A tight squeeze, but... -- Intrigued Police Officer Jack Carter peers at window (arrow) used by suspect in wrecking new jail's 'escape-proof' claim." -- Examiner clipping attached to verso, dated 27 August 1955.
Streetscape. Horizontal photography.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier: examiner-m4598
EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-153
http://doi.org/10.25549/examiner-m4598
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-153.jpg
Subject: Los Angeles--City--Buildings--Civic--Jails
Time Period: circa 1955-08-27
Place: -118.24187,34.05637
-118.24152,34.05569
-118.2419,34.0552
-118.24244,34.05572
California
County Jail
Downtown Los Angeles
Los Angeles
USA
Source: 3-1275-02805-2786 [Barcode]
EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-153 [Original Filename]
Subjects 320 [Print Box]
University of Southern California [Contributing entity]
Relation: Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection, 1920-1961
Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection, late 1920's - 1961
examiner-m4404

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