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Title: First Public Savings Bank closes
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Sergieff, Mike
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1986
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: Title supplied by cataloger.
Photograph caption reads: "LAPD officers try to move crowd of hundreds of people into orderly line so that they could be let into First Public Savings Bank to withdraw money. Rumers [sic] caused bank run yesterday and today, despite assurances from the bank and Federal officials that no one will lose any money". Rumors in the Chinese-American community started a run on First Public Savings Bank at 800 North Hill Street. Photograph dated: Feb. 23, 1986.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;28 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00083355
Herald Examiner Collection
HH_b054_f4_i34
CARL0000082489
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/25397
Subject: First Public Savings Bank (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Bank customers--California--Los Angeles
Banks and banking--California--Los Angeles
Crowds--California--Los Angeles
Police--California--Los Angeles
Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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