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Title
Walter O'Malley arrives in Los Angeles
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Contributor
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued
1957
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
Title supplied by cataloger.; Used in the Exhibit: Play by Play - A Century of L.A. Sports Photography, 1899-1989.;Used in the Exhibit: L.A. Baseball: From the Pacific Coast League to the Major Leagues.
Local officials greet O'Malley upon his arrival in L.A., after the 1957 season. County supervisor Kenneth Hahn (far left) and city councilwoman Rosalind Wyman (middle) were two of the politicians most responsible for making the deal happen. Hahn first met with O'Malley as early as 1956; Wyman backed Poulson in lobbying the city council to approve the deal. Photograph dated October 14, 1957.
Type
Image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;24 x 31 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00081504
Herald Examiner Collection
SCHH_b001_f1_i2; HE-002-257 4x5
CARL0000053109
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/23954
Subject
O'Malley, Walter,--1903-1979
Hahn, Kenneth
Wyman, Rosalind Wiener
Los Angeles County (Calif.).--Board of Supervisors
Los Angeles Dodgers (Baseball team)
Baseball--California--Los Angeles
City council members--California--Los Angeles
Baseball team owners--United States
Women city council members--California--Los Angeles
County council members--California--Los Angeles County
Stadiums--California--Los Angeles
Group portraits
Portrait photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Time Period
1951-1960

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