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Reverend Baker P. Lee, involved in an oil investment swindle, Los Angeles, 1920s

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Title: Reverend Baker P. Lee, involved in an oil investment swindle, Los Angeles, 1920s
Date Created and/or Issued: [1920s]
1920/1929
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
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
Portrait photograph of Reverend Baker P. Lee.
Reverend Baker P. Lee, was found guilty of collusion in a swindle with officials of the Are-Bee Oil Syndicate in 1926. However he escaped prison time.
Related article: “The case of Baker P. Lee,” Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 1926: A4.
Text from negative sleeve: Lee, Baker P.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_5501
ark:/21198/zz002cvj97
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Fraud--California--Los Angeles
Clergy--California--Los Angeles
Lee, Baker P. (Baker Perkins), 1871-1942
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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