Crowd gathers around chain letter racket shop, Los Angeles, 1935

Item Overview

Title
Crowd gathers around chain letter racket shop, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created
May 23, 1935
Date
1935-05-23
Publisher
Los Angeles Daily News
Language
No linguistic content
Collection
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Notes
Description
A crowd gathers around a chain letter racket shop. A city-wide police strike cracked down on the illegal shops, with officers joining the gambling undercover and then making arrests.
Caption
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Chain letter crowd
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Pluard, J.J.; Greenhill, Raymond, Officer; Matson, Lea; Matson, J.M.; Chain Letter Stores

Physical Description

Extent
1 photograph
Medium
b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre
news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Location
Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type
still image
Subjects
Events
Crimes--California--Los Angeles
Activism
Crowds--California--Los Angeles

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University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
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