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Title
Agents find still behind secret door
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 two of the agents and one of two stills they found in a chamber behind the secret door "camouflaged" as a stack of boxes. They arrested Al Katz, Thomas E. Estes and Mark Thorn on charges of operating the stills which they said had a daily capacity of 1,000 gallons of alcohol.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00036664
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 549-C.
CARL0000039341
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/11486
Subject
Prohibition--California--Los Angeles
Liquors--California--Los Angeles
Crime--California--Los Angeles
Distillation apparatus--California--Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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