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Title
Writers stage a mass demonstration
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1939
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
Group of writers staged a mass demonstration at the W.P.A. employment offices located on Eighth and Towne Streets. The group was protesting the dismissal of 54 out of a total of 84 writers employed by the Federal Writers Project. Photo dated: December 14, 1939.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00040741
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 8776.
CARL0000044550
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/12494
Subject
Federal Theatre Project (U.S.)
Federal Writers' Project
Theaters--California--Los Angeles
Drama--California--Los Angeles
Depressions--1929
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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