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Ted Allen finds a secret compartment in an automobile used by Joe Shaw, Los Angeles, 1938

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Title: Ted Allen finds a secret compartment in an automobile used by Joe Shaw, Los Angeles, 1938
Date Created and/or Issued: December 13, 1938
1938-12-13
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.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
The camera looks through the open rear passenger door of an automobile and towards investigator Ted Allen. At left, Ted Allen sits inside the car, facing right. He bends forward as he lifts the floorboard off a secret compartment tucked behind the front passenger seat. The front passenger door remains closed at right. A couple of other men stand on the far side of the car in the background.
A cropped version of this image appears with the title, " SECRET COMPARTMENT FOUND," Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 1938: A1
Related to the article, "Mexico Trip Auto Found: Ex-Mayor's Brother Explains Building of Secret Compartment," Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 1938: A1
Text from newspaper caption: Tad [sic] Allen, District Attorney's investigator, shown examining secret compartment built in car in which Joseph Shaw assertedly went to Mexico City. Times photo [Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 1938: A1]
Text from negative sleeve: 5702 - Ted Allen Jose Shaw Case (brother of Mayor Shaw + Sec'y) gov't corruption case D A's Investigator showing secret compartment in Joe Shaw Car. 12/13/38 [stamped:] DEC 16 1938
Handwritten on negative: 103 103 Ted Allen 12/13/38
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_14353
ark:/21198/zz002j7xg4
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Criminal investigations--California--Los Angeles
Government employees--California--Los Angeles
Automobiles--American--California--Los Angeles
Corruption--California--Los Angeles
Shaw, Joseph Edward, 1889-1965
Allen, Ted
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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