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George Contreras, county investigator, and Asa Keyes, district attorney, at a crime scene in a basement, Los Angeles, 1924-1929

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Title: George Contreras, county investigator, and Asa Keyes, district attorney, at a crime scene in a basement, Los Angeles, 1924-1929
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1924-1929]
1924/1929
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
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Photograph of George Contreras (left), Los Angeles County investigator, holding what appear to be bone fragments, and district attorney Asa Keyes, seated behind a trench in a basement. A shovel with torn fabric draped over it is on the left and a man behind them holds a candle.
Handwritten on negative: Asa Keyes & Geo. Contreras
Text from negative sleeve: Asa Keyes
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_10608
ark:/21198/zz002hbm94
Subject: Criminal investigations--California--Los Angeles
Public prosecutors--California--Los Angeles
Keyes, Asa, 1877-1934
Contreras, George, 1888-1945
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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