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- Title
- Human heart' found
- Alternative Title
- Valley Times Photo Collection
- Contributor
- This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
- Date Created and/or Issued
- 1948
- Contributing Institution
-
Los Angeles Public Library
- Collection
-
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
- Rights Information
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Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
- Description
- Photograph article dated October 13, 1948 partially reads, "Bits of silk clinging to what appeared to be fragments of human remains found in a Burbank incinerator at the rear of a small white cottage today plunged police into a full-scale investigation of a possible mystery murder. Pieces of bone and an object that officers said could be heart were discovered in the incinerator in the yard at 237 N. Catalina Ave. the remains were rushed to the sheriff's crime laboratory in Los Angeles for analysis." Note: Pictured is Burbank Detective, Robert Coveney inspecting supposed human parts.
- Type
- image
- Format
- 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
- Identifier
- 00115117
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d016_f28_i15
CARL0005307604
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/48986
- Subject
- Detectives--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Human remains (Archaeology)--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Police--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Men--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Investigations
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs
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