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Title: Dr. Hugo Foss is accused of forging illegal prescriptions, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: December 20, 1935
1935-12-20
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.
Dr. Foss sits at a desk resting his head in one hand.
Dr. Hugo Foss has been accused of issuing more than 850 illegal prescriptions within a period of six months. Addicts who had taken advantage of Dr. Foss' prescriptions gathered in the courtroom to provide their testimonies.
Photograph appears with the article, "Trial Opens In Dope Case," Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec 1935: A12.
Text from negative sleeve: 4062 - Dr. Hugo W. Foss 12-19-35 on Trial for Narcotic Charge [stamped:] Dec 20 1935
Text from newspaper caption: Dr. Hugo W. Foss, on trial on charges of prescribing narcotics illegally.
Handwritten on negative: Dr. Hugo W. Foss 12-19-35
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_13068
ark:/21198/zz002hn69c
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Narcotics
Physicians--American--California--Los Angeles
Foss, Hugo W., 1860-1944
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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