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Title
Southern Pacific Railroad strike
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1946
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
In 2006, the former yard became the Los Angeles State Historic Park.
The Southern Pacific's Cornfield Yard is jammed on May 24, 1946, by a labor strike. Across the yard is the freight house on Spring Street.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00047589
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 315; HE-002-280 4x5
CARL0000050972
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/16708
Subject
Southern Pacific Company
Railroads--California--Los Angeles
Railroad cars--California--Los Angeles
Strikes and lockouts--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments
Cornfield (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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