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Title
Graves brings her coffin to court
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
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Description
Gloria Graves, attractive "buried alive" girl, brought her crypt to court today and showed it to jurors and gaping spectators. She did it to prove she was harming no one, including herself, when she was buried alive for seven days, assertedly in violation of a city ordinance against endurance contests. Photo shows Miss Graves in her specially constructed coffin in the courtroom.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00030214
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 5731.; HE-002-496 4x5
CARL0000033980
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/10749
Subject
Graves, Gloria
Crime--California--Los Angeles
Tricks--California--Los Angeles
Hypnotism
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Goodwin, Robert M

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