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Title
Gordon Stewart Northcott
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1928
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
Authorities have termed Gordon Stewart Northcott an "ape man," and Sanford Clark has described him as being "covered with hair." A letter and photo found in the Northcott home show, according to investigators, that Northcott worried about this asserted condition.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00027458
Herald Examiner Collection
2207 Northcott case.; HE-000-448 4x5
CARL0000030255
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/10002
Subject
Northcott, Gordon Stewart,--d. 1929
Northcott, Sarah Louise,--1868-
Crime--California--Wineville
Murder--California--Wineville
Hypertrichosis
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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