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Eliot Ness
Eliot Ness
Identifierness16
TitleEliot Ness
SubjectNess, Eliot
Criminal investigations
Description"Will direct war against vice at defense posts. Cleveland- Safety Director Eliot Ness, above, of Cleveland, has been "borrowed" by Uncle Sam to organize and direct federal forces for the control of social diseases and prostitution at military camps and industrial defense centers. Ness, now only 38, will be remembered for his spectacular raids against Capone's Chicago breweries in 1926 when he was a U.S. Treasury Department Prohibition Agent."-- photo verso.
Location DepictedCleveland (Ohio)
Time PeriodPost-Industrial: 1930-1959
Date Original1941
Object Typeblack-and-white photographs
Size of Original6x8 in.
CollectionCleveland Press
Collection Homepagehttp://www.clevelandmemory.org/press/
DonorCole, Joseph E.
Copyrighthttp://www.clevelandmemory.org/copyright/
Formatjpeg
RepositoryCleveland State University. Michael Schwartz Library. Special Collections.
Repository Homepagehttp://web.ulib.csuohio.edu/SpecColl/
Digital PublisherCleveland Memory Project
Encyclopedia of Cleveland History Entryhttp://ech.cwru.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=NE
Further Readinghttp://scholar.csuohio.edu/search/d?SEARCH=ness+eliot
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