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Monday, January 03, 2011

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Found In the Archives: Claud Thornton's Traveling Crime Museum

Photo of Claud Thornton's traveling crime museum by Farm Security Administration photographer Jack Delano

January 3, 2011 Photographs from the early 1940s show a traveling, creepy "crime museum" of papier-mache effigies and ephemera.

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