Joe Watkins, defendant in racketeering case, Los Angeles, 1936
Item Overview
- Title
- Joe Watkins, defendant in racketeering case, Los Angeles, 1936
- Date Created
- March 03, 1936
- Date
- 1936-03-03
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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This photograph is likely related to the article, "Game's Lure Told Court," Los Angeles Times, 04 Mar. 1936: A3.
Joe Watkins sits at a table and works on a crossword puzzle from a newspaper.
Joe Watkins and ten others were accused of running numbers at the Santa Anita racetrack. The illegal gambling practice was run from a number of offices in Los Angeles and yielded a large profit. - Caption
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Text from negative sleeve: 3506 --- Jo Watkins - one of defendants, Race Track Racket [stamped:] MAR 4 1936
Handwritten on negative: Jo Watkins
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Names
- Watkins, Joe
- Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Gambling and crime
Law & legal affairs--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_12496
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002hmhkd
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
- UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
- Rights Holder
- The Regents of the University of California
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .