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Detective Lieutenant Joe Filkas with members of a special squadron organized to combat criminals who attack women and children, Los Angeles, 1935

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Title: Detective Lieutenant Joe Filkas with members of a special squadron organized to combat criminals who attack women and children, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: August 31, 1935
1935-08-31
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.
Group portrait of Detective Lieutenant Joe Filkas with members of a special squadron organized to combat criminals who attack women and children. The squadron was organized by Chief Davis following a series of attacks on five women and an 11-year-old girl.
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Joe Filkas & new Flying Squad.
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Filkas, Joe and Flying Squad.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: ark:/21198/zz002883xd
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Police--California--Los Angeles
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Filkas, Joseph, 1897-1968
Source: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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