Image / Female USC student waiting for campus trolley, 1968

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Title: Female USC student waiting for campus trolley, 1968
Contributor: Yaro, Boris
Date Created and/or Issued: December 15, 1968
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) 825-3588
Description: Photo accompanied a story about the murder of a USC freshman, and the "wave of fear" caused by a pattern of theft, burglary, and harassment of USC students. The trolley in the photograph was purchased after the Watts riots, and circled the area from 4:30 p.m. to midnight. Students dubbed it "The Rape Escape."
Type: Image
Format: b&w negative
Identifier: uclalat_1429_b625_240984
ark:/21198/zz0002vqsd
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Youth
College students--Transportation--California--Los Angeles
Transportation
Trolley buses--California--Los Angeles
University of Southern California--Students
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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