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Title: Southern Pacific Railroad strike
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1946
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: In 2006 the former yard became the Los Angeles State Historic Park
Fireman James Genisio receives the strike order on May 24, 1946, and engineer H. L. Gentry closes the throttle of Southern Pacific cab forward 4-8-8-2 locomotive 4179 at Los Angeles' Cornfield.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00047600
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 315.
CARL0000051013
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/16754
Subject: Southern Pacific Company
Railroads--California--Los Angeles
Railroads--Employees--California--Los Angeles
Strikes and lockouts--Railroads--California--Los Angeles
Strikes and lockouts--California--Los Angeles
Cornfield (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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