Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. A photograph of Sidney T. Graves, covering his face with a newspaper as he is transferred from L.A. County Jail to San Quentin Penitentiary. Graves was convicted of bribery a year before, after accepting a sum of $80,000 in connection with the high San Gabriel dam project. At that time, Graves had been a county Supervisor. He was sentenced to one to fourteen years imprisonment for his crime. Text from original nitrate sleeve: Graves, Sidney T.; Cappell, Jack.
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Image
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b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
9138 uclamss_1387_09138-02 ark:/21198/zz002544g4
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No linguistic content
Subject
People Crime Legal Bribery--California--Los Angeles Criminals--California--Los Angeles Graves, Sidney T. (Sidney Thomas), 1882-1958
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