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Title: Rice wine destroyed under court orders
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1929
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 federal officials destroying 1800 earthenware bottles of imported Chinese rice wine, called ng ka py, under court order. The wine had been stored in a Los Angeles bonded warehouse for four years, while the government battled for courts to rule it a beverage, not a tonic, and finally won. Photo dated: May 26, 1928.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00036670
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 549-C.
CARL0000039347
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/11495
Subject: Prohibition--California--Los Angeles
Liquors--California--Los Angeles
Crime--California--Los Angeles
Rice wines
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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