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Title: Seeking riches in "dollar" scheme
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1935
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Seeking riches in Los Angeles county's latest "share-the-wealth" scheme, the "dollar scramble," a crowd of men, women and children is shown filing into the "dollar plant" in Glendale to hand over a dollar each and put their names on a chain letter list, hoping to receive $128 each in return in 128 chain letters. The "dollar scramble" works on the same principal as the dying dime chain letter fad, only operators of the "dollar plants" do the mailing of the $1 chain letters. You just pay your $1 and hope for the best. Photo dated: May 18, 1935.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00056892
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 5669.
CARL0000060443
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/22011
Subject: Gambling
Risk
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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