Image / Burroughs McGraw smokes a cigarette in the prison ward, Los Angeles, 1935

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Title: Burroughs McGraw smokes a cigarette in the prison ward, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: July 16, 1935
1935-07-16
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 was taken in the prison ward of the General Hospital.
This photograph might be associated with the article, “FRAUD ‘KING’ SEEKS DEATH: Suspect Attempts Suicide When Police Tell Him He Faces Life Term,” 17 Jul. 1935: A2.
Handwritten on negative: Burroughs, M McGraw 7/16/35.
Text from negative sleeve: 1285—Burroughs M. McGraw, Forger 7/16/35. [Stamped:] JUL 22 1935.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_7689
ark:/21198/zz002dff05
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Suicide prevention--California--Los Angeles
Swindlers--California--Death Valley
Hospitals--California--Los Angeles
McGraw, Burroughs, 1904-1976
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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