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Title: New deputy district attorney
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1963
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: Portrait of Marion L. Obera being sworn in as deputy district attorney, the first African American to hold this office in Los Angeles or in California. Manley J. Bowler, chief deputy district attorney, administered the oath in ceremonies in his office on August 13, 1963. Prior to this time she worked as a social case worker following a stint in the Air Force.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00049084
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 6400.
CARL0000052940
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/17368
Subject: Obera, Marian L
Bowler, Manley J
Lawyers--California--Los Angeles
Public prosecutors--California--Los Angeles
Rites and ceremonies--California--Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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