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Title: Volunteers unload food, Watts Riots
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1965
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: Volunteers unload some of the nine thousand pounds of high-protein MPF (Multi-Purpose Food) sent by Meals for Millions into the food-scarce south Los Angeles riot area. Meals for Millions, a non-profit private organization, has provided this specially nutritious food in famine areas in 129 countries. Photo dated: August 19, 1965.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00036452
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1993.
CARL0000039443
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/11582
Subject: Meals for Millions Foundation
Watts Riot, Los Angeles, Calif., 1965
Fires--California--Watts (Los Angeles)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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