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Inmate works in laundry at jail, Los Angeles, 1952
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Inmate works in laundry at jail, Los Angeles, 1952
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Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection, late 1920's - 1961
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Description
Photograph. "It takes a lot of washing to keep 3,000 prisoners clean. Here an inmate shoves another load of clothes into line where they will be fed to the large laundry machines. Laundry is operated entirely by inmate labor at a saving of almost a quarter of a million dollars to taxpayers." -- typed note attached to verso, dated 4 November 1952.; Streetscape. Horizontal photography.
Asset Metadata
Title
Inmate works in laundry at jail, Los Angeles, 1952
Subject
Los Angeles -- City -- Buildings -- Civic -- Jails
(file heading)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
County Jail
(manmade features),
Downtown Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1952-11-04
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
(aacr2),
photographic prints
(aat),
photographs
(aat)
Source
Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection, 1920-1961
(collection),
Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection, late 1920's - 1961
(subcollection),
University of Southern California
(contributing entity)
Date Created
1952-11-04
Publisher
University of Southern California. Libraries
(digital)
Repository Email
cisadmin@lib.usc.edu
Repository Name
USC Libraries Special Collections
Repository Location
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Rights
For uses other than private, please contact the USC Digital Library at cisadmin@lib.usc.edu
Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/examiner-m4596
Identifier
3-1275-02805-2844 (
barcode
), EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-151 (
filename
), examiner-m4404 (
legacy collection record id
), examiner-m4596 (
legacy record id
), examiner-c44-91102 (
legacy record id
), EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-151 (
original filename
), Subjects 320 (
print box
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
91102
Unique identifier
UC11731725
Legacy Identifier
EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-151.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
12.0 in × 9.7 in at 300dpi
30.6 cm × 24.7 cm at 300dpi
Inherited Values
Title
Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection, late 1920's - 1961