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Photo Id# AAC-9221
Title [Bodies of three prisoners who died trying to escape from Alcatraz Prison] [graphic].
Date 1946 May 5.
Description 1 photographic print: b&w.
Location Folder: S.F. Islands-Alcatraz-Prison Breaks-1946
Reproduction Rights Permission to use this image must be obtained from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library. www.sfpl.org/permissions.
Notes On back: "SF384458... (San Francisco Bureau) THERE WILL BE NO MIX-UP HERE - SAN FRANCISCO--In a desperate effort in a break for freedom from Alcatraz the three riot ringleaders received a one-way ticket out from behind the walls of the 'rock.' Left to right with the identification tickets tied to their toes are Joseph Paul Cretzer, Marvin Franklin Hubbard, and Paul Bernard Coy. The bodies lie in San Francisco's morgue. Bureaus Coast T CREDIT LINE (ACME) 5/5/46".
"Acme Newspictures Inc."
Subject San Francisco (Calif.) -- Photographs.
Alcatraz Island (Calif.)
United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, California.
Series San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection
Source Acme Newspictures (New York, N.Y.)
Collection Name Acme Newspictures (New York, N.Y.)