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Title: Allen Azen, jailed on a forgery charge, Los Angeles, 1924
Date Created and/or Issued: November 26, 1924
1924-11-26
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Portrait photograph of Allen Azen, who was imprisoned on a charge of forgery. Azen had struck his head during a jail boxing match, after which he claimed to know himself as Morris Laborwitz, a prosperous insurance salesman from Baltimore. Correspondence from his mother claimed that her son was ill when he went missing in March 1924. Photo appears with article "Fall Blots Out Crime Life: Prisoner Held for Forging Remembers Himself as Prosperous Insurance Man After Blow on Head," Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 1924: A11.
Text from negative sleeve: Azen, Allen. Forgery case. 1925
Handwritten on negative: Allen Azen or Morris Labowitz
Type: image
Format: b&w glass negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_b3692_G235
ark:/21198/z14r3mr5
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Wounds & injuries--California--Los Angeles
Prisoners--California--Los Angeles
Azen, Allen E., b. 1899
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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