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Title: V. L. Burgess, gambler, 1926
Date Created and/or Issued: 1926
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.
V. L. Burgess was a gambler who lived in a gambling house that was raided in 1924.
V. L. Burgess sits in a wicker chair in front of a window. He is smoking a cigar, holding the cigar in his right hand. Flowered wallpaper decorates the walls behind him.
Text on negative sleeve: Burgess, V. L. Gambler 1926
Handwritten on negative: V. L. Burgess
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_1228
ark:/21198/zz002dbngz
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Wicker furniture
Cigars
Gambling--California--Pasadena
Windows
Wallpaper
Gamblers--California--Pasadena
Burgess, V. L. (Gambler)
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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