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Title: War Surplus store damaged, Watts Riots
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1965
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: A security guard looks over extensive damage to a War Surplus store on Avalon Boulevard and 108th Street. Store was smashed and looted just before dawn, by wild-eyed youths who roamed through the area in packs during the Watts Riots. Photo dated: August 13, 1965.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00036443
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1993.; HE-001-951 4x5
CARL0000039431
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/11576
Subject: War Surplus (Watts, Los Angeles, Calif.)
Watts Riot, Los Angeles, Calif., 1965
Fires--California--Watts (Los Angeles)
Watts (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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