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Title: "Death robe" of the Black Legion
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1936
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: Capt. William Hynes of the intelligence squad, is shown wearing the "death robe" of the Black Legion that was found in a suitcase. Captain Hynes spread a net of 100 officers to round up suspects and crush the black octopus of assassination before it grows over the city. Photo dated: October 15, 1936.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00051867
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 6594.
CARL0000055226
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/23751
Subject: Black Legion
Racism
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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