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
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.
Text from negative sleeve: 1285—Burroughs M. McGraw, Forger 7/16/35. [Stamped:] JUL 22 1935.
Handwritten on negative: Burroughs, M McGraw 7/16/35.
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_7689
ark:/21198/zz002dff05
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Swindlers--California--Death Valley
Suicide prevention--California--Los Angeles
Hospitals--California--Los Angeles
McGraw, Burroughs, 1904-1976
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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