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Title: U.S. Marshal's federal prison transport railway car, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: April 8, 1935
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: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
US Marshal's Prison transport car, in which attorney Edward E. Wiley, convicted of stealing and forging Liberty Bonds, was to be transported to McNeil Island federal prison.
Related to Los Angeles Times article, "Wiley Off For Prison; Prisoner Under Heavy Guard; Man Convicted of Deal in Stolen Liberty Bonds Considered Dangerous," 9 Apr. 1935: A1.
Text from negative sleeve: Wiley, E. E.Atty., 1933
Handwritten on negative: U.S. Prison Car 4-8-35
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_4359
ark:/21198/zz002cq4pb
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Railroad cars--American--California--Los Angeles
Wiley, Edward E., b. 1888
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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