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Title: Turkey shoot competition
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1931
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: Photo shows police marksmen and a pair of fine turkeys seeking homes. A turkey shoot competition was being held at the Elysian park police patrol range. The shoot was open to the public where marksmen would fire at targets in the hopes of winning a turkey for his Christmas table. Shown are officers, left to right: C. E. Ward, J. J. Engbrecht, M. W. Wheeler, J. A. Leemux and Assistant Chief James E. Davis. Photo dated December 22, 1931.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00028050
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1981-Davis, James E.
CARL0000030760
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/10187
Subject: Davis, James E
Los Angeles (Calif.).--Police Department
Police--California--Los Angeles
Police chiefs--California--Los Angeles
Pistols
Pistol shooting
Shooting contests
Shooters of firearms
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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