Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 USC Libraries Special Collections University of Southern California specol@usc.edu
Description
12 images. Chavez Ravine evictions, 14 May 1959. Manuel Arechiga Victoria Angustain Abrana Arechiga Trailer Tent Rachel Angustain -- 10 years Ida Angustain -- 7 years Ira Angustain -- 9 months Ivy Angustain -- 5 years. Caption slip reads: "Photographer: Snow. Date: 5-14. Reporter: Hertel. Assignment: Chavez Ravine. Manuel Arechiga Abrana Arechiga defy order to move. Trailer being moved. Tent being erected. Clockwise from left: Rachel, 10 Ida, 7 Ira, 9 months Ivy, 5, by trailer. Ida and Rachel move out of trailer. Abrana Arechiga moves from trailer". Other caption slip reads: "Photographer: Snow -- Paegel. Assignment: Chavez Ravine. Detective Sergeant M.S. Pena of Los Angeles Police Department acting as interpreter. N.O. Denend, right-of-way official of Board of Public Works. They presented and read order to move. Other caption slip reads: "Photographer: Paegel. Date. 5-14. Reporter: Schaffell. Assignment: Chavez. 17-18: USC students (l-r) Mike Morrison, 19, and Bruce Blinn, 23, came to Arch home with sign: Leave -- Glory Hounds, on car. They're anti householders".
Type
image
Format
12 photographs : negatives, b&w 10 x 13 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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