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Coroner Frank Nance, chemist Miles Drake, and Det. Lt. Aldo Corsini examining something in a chemistry lab, Los Angeles, 1930s

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Title: Coroner Frank Nance, chemist Miles Drake, and Det. Lt. Aldo Corsini examining something in a chemistry lab, Los Angeles, 1930s
Date Created and/or Issued: [1930s]
1930/1939
Publication Information: Los Angeles Daily News
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
(Left to right) Coroner Frank Nance, Chemist Miles Drake, and Det. Lt. Aldo Corsini examining something in a bottle in what appears to be a chemistry lab. Presumably, the three men are all investigating a crime. Corsini was a homicide detective, so it is probably a murder investigation, but the details are unknown.
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Coroner Frank Nance, Miles Drake & Det. Lt. Aldo Corsini
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Corsini, Aldo, Det. Lieut.; Drake, Miles, Chemist; Nance, Frank, Coroner
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: ark:/21198/zz0025gnw2
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Detectives--California--Los Angeles
Investigation--California--Los Angeles
Chemists--American--California--Los Angeles
Science
Corsini, Aldo, 1895-1960
Drake, Miles
Source: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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