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Title: Underground liquor plant seized by Feds
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1930
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Mysteries of a huge liquor-making plant concealed in "catacombs" dug beneath a wheat field near Elsinore are revealed by dry agents who raided and seized it. Photo shows the surface "camouflage" of the $100,000 underground liquor manufacturing plant seized by Los Angeles Federal prohibition officers. (For diagram of underground distillery, see 00036672.) Photo dated: January 24, 1930.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00036673
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 549-C.
CARL0000039350
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/11497
Subject: Prohibition--California--Elsinore
Liquors--California--Elsinore
Crime--California--Elsinore
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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