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Title: Communist flag hauled down from City Hall pole
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1933
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Mysteriously raised to the top of the flagpole on the Los Angeles City Hall lawn, this Communist flag, bearing the words "Down with Fascism--Free Torgler," was hauled down and confiscated by police. The words are believed to refer to Ernest Torgler, German Communist, tried for the burning of the Reichstag building. Detective Lieut. Stanley L. Anderson is shown with the flag. Photograph dated December 20, 1933.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00039809
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 2309
CARL0000043384
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/15279
Subject: Communist Party of America
Los Angeles City Hall (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Communists--California--Los Angeles
City halls--California--Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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