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Title: [Mug shots of African Americans]
Creator: Turner, Steve (Art dealer)
Contributor: Turner, Steve (Art dealer)
Date Created and/or Issued: approximately 1908-1978
Contributing Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
Collection: Steve Turner Collection of African-Americana
Rights Information: Public domain
Constraint(s) on Use: This work may be used without prior permission.
Use: This work is available from the UC San Diego Library. This digital copy of the work is intended to support research, teaching, and private study.
Description: Collection of five mug shots of African Americans arrested and sentenced to prison time between 1908 and 1979. Photographs accompanied by detailed physical descriptions of the arrested. Included in the collection are Booker Davis (arrested January 28, 1921, Oklahoma City), Charles Lee Walker (photograph taken 1978 or 1979, no place given), Henry Love (arrested January 9, 1917, Marysville, California), John Henry Lee (arrested May 18, 1908, Los Angeles, California), and Romeo? Brown Green (undated, San Francisco, California).
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca)
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[California]
Type: image
Format: 5 photographs : print ; sheets 15 x 15 cm or smaller
Identifier: ark:/20775/bb0384427w
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: African American criminals
African Americans
Photographs
Prisoners
United States
Place: United States

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