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Officers of the Los Angeles Narcotics Squad pose with $35,000 worth of gum opium, Los Angeles, 1935

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Title: Officers of the Los Angeles Narcotics Squad pose with $35,000 worth of gum opium, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa June, 1935]
1935-06
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.
Likely related to the article, "Large Dope Find Made By Officers," Los Angeles Times, 15 Jun. 1935: 2
At center, Narcotics Squad officers Eddie Chitwood, Otto Schlinske and Arthur Mott pose with $35,000 worth of seized gum opium. In front of the them, a table enters frame from the right. A suitcase sits open of the far corner of the table. It is filled with the opium. The three officers stand around it and look to camera while holding some of the opium.
Handwritten text from negative sleeve: 1020 - Capt. Eddie Chitwood, Det. Lieut. Otto Schlinske, Dt. Lieut. Arthur Mott (all of the Los Angeles Narocotic [sic] squad) With $35,000 worth of gum opium [stamped:] JUL 10 1935
Handwritten on negative: 1020 Capt. Eddie Chitwood, Det. Lieut. Otto Schlinske, De. Lieut. Arthur Mott
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_7327
ark:/21198/zz002df0hn
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Drug seizures--California--Los Angeles
Detectives--California--Los Angeles
Opium
Mott, Arthur, 1896 or 97-1969
Chitwood, Eddie
Los Angeles (Calif.). Police Department
Schlinske, Otto, 1893-1957
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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