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Title: Jammed switchboards after President Roosevelt's death
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1945
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Jammed switchboard at Consolidated Vultee Aircraft indicates speed with which the report of President Roosevelt's death spread as wives and families called in to pass the tragic word on to their husbands and others. Photograph dated April 13, 1945.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00095937
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 102.
CARL0005060230
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/33294
Subject: Roosevelt, Franklin D.--(Franklin Delano),--1882-1945--Death and burial
Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation
Telephone operators--California--Los Angeles
Women--California--Los Angeles
Telephone switchboards
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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