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Title
Line at the Ration Board
Alternative Title
Housing Authority Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1944
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
People line up for ration books at the Ration Board on Olive and 6th Streets, in Los Angeles. Among rationed items were shoes, tires, gasoline, sugar, meat, cheese, and butter. Some of the items difficult to obtain were shirts, kleenex, nylons, candy and liquor. Photo dated: August 1944.
Type
Image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00055010
Housing Authority Collection
GPC_b31_f3; A-005-821 4x5
CARL0000061025
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/104279
Subject
World War, 1939-1945
Survival and emergency rations

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