Image / Jacob Berman is released on Presidential clemency (1937), Los Angeles, 1927 (photo)

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Title: Jacob Berman is released on Presidential clemency (1937), Los Angeles, 1927 (photo)
Date Created and/or Issued: 1927
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.
Photograph appears with the article, "Berman Will Start All Over," Los Angeles Times, 04 Nov 1937: 13.
After serving time in the Leavenworth Penitentiary and the San Francisco County Jail on charges of mail fraud Berman has been released on a Presidential clemency order. He will soon return to his home in New York.
Berman sits on a bench, his gaze focused on the camera.
Text from negative sleeve: Lewis, S.C. (Sheridan) (some images mis-identified)
Text from newspaper caption: Jacob Berman in 1927.
Handwritten on negative: S.C. Lewis, Jacob Berman Jacob Berman
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_5474
ark:/21198/zz002cvhcs
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Ex-convicts
Berman, Jacob
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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