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Title: Walter Woodworth describes rifle burglar
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: 1959
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: Title supplied by cataloger.
Photograph caption dated September 21, 1959 reads, "Describes Rifle Burglar -- Walter Woodworth, 52, seated, owner of Burbank vending machine company, shows officer Robert Wells where bandit hit him on head with rifle butt before robbing safe of $5,000 in coins today. Bandit, masked in stocking, later shot company employe [sic]."
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00084230
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d003_f27_i17
CARL0004762176
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/42636
Subject: Robbery--California--Los Angeles
Crime--California--Los Angeles
Victims of crimes--California--Los Angeles
Police--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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