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Title: Honor students at 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: Heading the regular line of 15,000 persons waiting to get aboard the Freedom Train on February 25, 1948, was the second group of 500 honor students who won priority in essay contests at 400 schools. They were given an hour-long preview before 10 a.m. And they had been preceded by 30 wounded vets from local hospitals who had top priority of the day. Police provide crowd control.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00060143
Herald Examiner Collection
HE Box 11614.
CARL0000064132
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/24236
Subject: Freedom Train
Railroads--California--Los Angeles
Students--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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