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Title
Man inspecting cracker box in hole, ransom drop-off point in Mary B. Skeele kidnap case, Los Angeles, 1933
Date Created and/or Issued
1933
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.
This photograph appears with the photo spread, "Mrs. Skeele Ransom Demands Told in Notes," Los Angeles Times, February 7, 1933
Man in suit, tie, and hat, squatting in hole dug near Montecito Drive, holding string in one hand, pointing with the other toward open box weighted down with rock, reading One Pound Edgemont Butter Crackers
Text from newspaper caption: The hole at the top of the bank with the empty cracker box and string attached. It was evidently the plan of the kidnapers to haul the ransom money down the side of the bank and then make their get-away.
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 10144 - Mrs. Mary B. Skeeles - 1934 Kidnaping - (Return to Library [Stamped:] Dec 19 [1934?] [1937?]
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_0252
0252
ark:/21198/zz002d9gt8
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Crime
Government
Kidnappings--California--Los Angeles
Skeele, Mary Bosworth, 1867-1942
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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