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Title: Families receive food baskets, 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: "Negro" families from the riot areas wait in line at Edwin Markham Junior High to receive food baskets from the Salvation Army. National Guardsmen with rifles, keep watch. Photo dated August 17, 1965.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00036470
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1993
CARL0000039459
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/11598
Subject: Salvation Army
Markham Middle School (Watts, Los Angeles, Calif.)
Watts Riot, Los Angeles, Calif., 1965
Fires--California--Los Angeles
Families--California--Los Angeles
Food relief--California--Los Angeles
Middle schools--California--Los Angeles
Schools--California--Watts (Los Angeles)
Watts (Los Angeles, Calif.)
United States--National Guard
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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