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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]
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.
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.
Text from negative sleeve: Asa Keyes
Handwritten on negative: Asa Keyes & Geo. Contreras
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
Contreras, George, 1888-1945
Keyes, Asa, 1877-1934
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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