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Title: Switchboard at Terminal Island Prison
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1942
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: The former Terminal Island Federal Prison's light switchboard which flashed alarms in case of prison break attempts, on April 18, 1942, was now the nerve center at the naval receiving station. Lieut.-Comdr. A. R. Myers, left, and Comdr. W. W. Fineman show the room's automatic button system which connects with any part of the station and is used to relay officers' messages.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00050796
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 7777
CARL0000054980
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/23561
Subject: Terminal Island Federal Prison (Los Angeles, Calif.)
United States.--Navy
Prisons--California--Terminal Island
Sailors--United States
Telephone switchboards
World War, 1939-1945
Terminal Island (Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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