Title supplied by cataloger.; Lower left corner damaged. Photograph caption dated June 8, 1940 reads, "Jamming Spring street in front of the City Hall, part of a crowd of 15,000 persons is shown today at a big peace rally held on the City Hall steps. They heard Mayor Fletcher Bowron, chief speaker, declare that 'We Want Peace, but Not Peace at any Price." In the crowd are banners reading 'The Yanks Are Not Coming'; 'Give Our Sons Jalopies, not Poppies'; 'Yanks Say No to Tanks."
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image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;29 x 36 cm. Photographic prints
Los Angeles City Hall (Los Angeles, Calif.) World War, 1939-1945--Protest movements Anti-war demonstrations--California--Los Angeles Demonstrations--California--Los Angeles Crowds--California--Los Angeles City halls--California--Los Angeles Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
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