LAPD booking card for B. Garcia

Object/Artifact

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Homestead Museum

Name/Title

LAPD booking card for B. Garcia

Entry/Object ID

2008.196.1.1

Description

LAPD booking card for B. Garcia, 27 July 1908. The front of the card contains two photographs, one a frontal and the other a side view, of the suspect, as well as much physical information, including width of body parts, marks, height and weight, and other information. The reverse has his name, arrest date, occupation, descend, crime, name of arresting officer, sentence, and identifying marks. At the bottom is the note: "Stole some junk form [sic] the Salt Lake R. R." Garcia was convicted of petty larceny and sentenced to $20 fine or twenty days in county jail. With browning, paper curvature, soiling, and a few stains, the condition is fair.

Lexicon

Search Terms

California. Department of Public Health. Bureau of Child Hygiene, United States. Department of Labor. Children's Bureau.

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Identity cards