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Former district attorney Asa Keyes smokes a cigar upon his arrival back home from prison, Glendale, 1931

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Title: Former district attorney Asa Keyes smokes a cigar upon his arrival back home from prison, Glendale, 1931
Date Created and/or Issued: October 13, 1931
1931-10-13
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: Former district attorney Asa Keyes smokes a cigar at the Glendale train station after his arrival back home from prison with Fire Commissioner Weiden on the left. He had served his sentence for accepting a bribe from the Julian Petroleum Corporation. A different photograph of Keyes and Weiden taken on the same occasion appears with the article, "Friends Greet Ex-Prosecutor Home From Prison: KEYES DODGING SPOTLIGHT First Dinner With Family His Only Immediate Plan as Many Ask to Buy Autos From Him," Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 1931: A2.
Text from negative sleeve: Keyes, Asa.
Handwritten on negative: Asa Keyes + Fire Comm Weiden
Type: image
Format: b&w glass negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_b3711_G2499
ark:/21198/z1c30pd0
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Smoking
Arrivals & departures--American--California--Glendale
Keyes, Asa, 1877-1934
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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