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Title
Interior view of the conference room of the Los Angeles County Jail, located on the tenth floor of the hall of justice, ca.1940-1949
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1940/1949
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of an interior view of the conference room of the Los Angeles County Jail, located on the tenth floor of the hall of justice, ca.1940-1949. Three rows of desks sit in the rear of the room, while another desk and a card-file cabinet bearing a sign "Files for use of officers only" sit in the front left. The surfaces of the rear desks are bisected by low dividers
stools sit on the concrete floor on each side of the desks. Two panels of barred walls sit at the far end of the room. This conference room was used for prisoners and their attorneys.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m3921
USC-2-1-1-4010 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-31125
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m3921
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-31125.jpg
Subject
Jails
Prisons
Los Angeles--Prisons
Los Angeles County Jail
Correctional facilities
Time Period
circa 1940/1949
Place
Buena Vista and Temple Streets
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
31125 [Accession number]
CHS-31125 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
unidentified no: 84-1-992 [Identifying number]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
USC
chs-m825

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