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Title
Striking Red Car workers in front of the Pacific Electric building approaching a street car, Los Angeles, 1919
Date Created and/or Issued
August 1919
1919-08
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 Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
Description
Street railroad strikers gathered beside a street car in front of the Pacific Electric building at Main Street and 6th Street. Photograph appears with the article "OPEN SHOP STANDS FAST IN SECOND SEVERE TEST: 1919, Next Only to 1910 as Crucial Period in Long War, Sees Many Strikes, Much Violence," Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 1929: 1, 9.
Text from newspaper caption: Red Car strikers threatening demonstration outside P. E. building.
Text from negative sleeve: Strikes — Street Car Strike.
Type
image
Format
b&w glass negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_b3730_G4708
ark:/21198/zz0002ppt6
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Street railroad strikes--California--Los Angeles
Pacific Electric Railway Company
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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