LAPD booking card for Chester Cook

Object/Artifact

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Homestead Museum

Name/Title

LAPD booking card for Chester Cook

Entry/Object ID

2009.23.1.1

Description

A booking card from the Los Angeles Police Department for Chester Cook, 26 February 1908. The item captures personal and physiological information for the man, arrested and convicted on the charge of burglary and sentenced to eight years at San Quentin, including age, hometown, occupation, eye color, hair color, height, weight, measurements of physical features, and marks. There are also two photographs of Cook, one in full and the other in side view. With curvature of the paper, heavy soiling, browning, a few stains and some edge rubbing, the condition is fair.

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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