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Boxes of clothing and food for Nicaragua earthquake victims being loaded onto freighter in Long Beach, Calif., 1973

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Title: Boxes of clothing and food for Nicaragua earthquake victims being loaded onto freighter in Long Beach, Calif., 1973
Contributor: Ruhlow, Jerry
Date Created and/or Issued: January 24, 1973
1973-01-24
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: NICARAGUA BOUND-- Seventy tons of clothing and 90 tons of food collected for Managua earthquake victims await loading on freighter Australic at Long Beach Harbor. Operators of the freighter provided space on ship, stevedores paid for loading, city waived port charges.
Type: image
Format: b&w negative
Identifier: uclalat_1429_b710_273787
ark:/21198/zz0002np2c
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Managua Earthquake, Nicaragua, 1972
Disaster
Humanitarian assistance, American--Nicaragua
Activism
International
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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