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Title: Crowds assemble to see Freedom Train
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1948
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: Crowds jam Exposition Boulevard during stopover of the Freedom Train. More than 75,000 Angelenos--the greatest crowd ever, assembled to greet the train on its long and historic pilgrimage across the country. People jammed the sidewalks on Exposition Boulevard to welcome to town America's "national shrine on wheels." Photo dated: February 23, 1948.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00040760
Herald Examiner Collection
HE Box 11614.
CARL0000044738
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/13117
Subject: Freedom Train
Railroad tracks--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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