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Title: American Savings and Loan taken over
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Ruebsamen, James
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1988
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: "U.S. government took control of American S&L's assets yesterday". American Savings and Loan Association, shown here on Hill Street, has been a virtual ward of the federal government since 1984 with repeated runs on deposits and a mounting load of soured loans that brought one of the nation's largest financial institutions to the brink of failure. Photograph dated: Sept. 7, 1988.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;36 x 28 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00083356
Herald Examiner Collection
HH_b054_f4_i44
CARL0000082490
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/25398
Subject: American Savings and Loan Association (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Tall buildings--California--Los Angeles
Bank failures--California--Los Angeles
Savings and loan associations--California--Los Angeles
Bank buildings--California--Los Angeles
Hill Street (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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