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Title: Policemen with the briefcase bomb used in an attempted bank robbery, Los Angeles, 1931
Date Created and/or Issued: December 31, 1931
1931-12-31
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 Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
Description: Two Los Angeles policemen displaying the briefcase bomb Timothy P. Blevins used in an attempted bank robbery. A message is written on the inner lid of the box: "The black owl will [?] you death! Don't [?]"
Text from negative sleeve: Blevins, Timothy. Bank robbery attempt. 1/2/32
Handwritten on negative: Timothy Blevins
Type: image
Format: b&w glass negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_b3694_G498
ark:/21198/zz0002nftc
Language: English
Subject: Bombs
Police--California--Los Angeles
Evidence, Criminal
Bank robberies--California--Los Angeles
Crime
Olson, R.W
Blevins, Timothy P., b. 1909
Los Angeles (Calif.). Police Department
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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