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Title
Burning sheriff's car
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator
Messinger, Joe
Date Created and/or Issued
1970
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
An abandoned sheriff's car, still smoking and burning, faces a line of bungalows in East Los Angeles during the National Chicano Moratorium of August 29, 1970. Firemen are on the scene as spectators watch. Photo dated Aug. 30, 1970.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00058804
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1993
CARL0000062499
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/22612
Subject
National Chicano Moratorium
Fires--California--East Los Angeles
Police vehicles--California--East Los Angeles
Demonstrations--California--East Los Angeles
Fire engines--California--East Los Angeles
Streets--California--East Los Angeles
Sidewalks--California--East Los Angeles
Dwellings--California--East Los Angeles
East Los Angeles (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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