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Title
General Store looted, Watts Riots
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1965
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
A man stands in front of what use to be the General Store at 1807 - 103rd Street in downtown Watts. Windows were broken and store was looted during the rioting in the Watts area. Photo dated: August 17, 1965.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00036446
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1993
CARL0000039437
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/11579
Subject
Watts Riot, Los Angeles, Calif., 1965
Fires--California--Los Angeles
Riots--California--Los Angeles
Stores & shops--California--Watts (Los Angeles)
Pillage--California--Los Angeles
Men--California--Los Angeles
Watts (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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