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Description:: Likely related to the article, "SIFTS PLANS SALE CHARGE: Pacific Powers Watch Move Two Men in Custody and Certain Orientals Sought; Officers to Testify," Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 1936: 1
Date:: March 4, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: View of the parking lot of L.A. City Jail. Bars on the windows are visible.
Date:: [1920-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: City street with pedestrians, cars and buildings including Los Angeles central police station, which includes the city jail. Sign on building reads: Leonard Freefield Company Printers. The Central Los Police Station, a Romanesque revival style building faced with rusticated stone, was designed by architect Charles L. Strange, and opened around 1908. Strange was also the architect of the Hotel Green, in Pasadena (1887), and the Superior Court Building in Santa Ana (1900-1901).
Date:: [circa 1920]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Exterior view of the city jail at Lincoln Heights with the street in front at 421 North Avenue 19. The Art Deco Building was constructed in 1927 and opened in 1931. It was designated a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument on November 30, 1993.
Date:: [circa 1927]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Photograph appears with the article "BURIED BASTILLE DOORS OPENED AGAIN: Office Alterations Expose Barriers Used Fifty Years Ago," Los Angeles Times, 04 Dec. 1929: A11.
Date:: December 3, 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Charles Wesley Way dressed in overalls, sitting in front of jail cell after his arrest for threatening to shoot oil workers. Reported in "TERROR REIGN IN OIL AREA ENDED: Armed Threatener of Men Taken by Officers Terrorist Former Inmate of State Asylum Fancied Wrongs Held Cause for Man's Actions," Los Angeles Times, 01 Oct 1925: 7.
Date:: September 30, 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Photo appears with title "Pastor Starts Contempt Sentence," Los Angeles Times, 06 May 1930: A1.
Date:: May 5, 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Bridge of Sighs, a covered passageway connecting the jail to the Hall of Justice.
Date:: 1921
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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