Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photographer and others gathered in the Office of Price Administration with six dummies wearing signs that say: "This congressman committed political suicide. He voted against the O.P.A. by A.V.C." The American Veterans Committee hung the dummies from lamp posts and high wires at prominant intersections throughout the city in support of prolonging government regulation of prices. Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Office of Price Administration
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image
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b&w nitrate negative
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ark:/21198/zz00280hvk
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No linguistic content
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Economy Government Hangings (Executions)--California--Los Angeles Effigies Activism Photographers--California--Los Angeles Price regulation--California--Los Angeles Political strategies--California--Los Angeles American Veterans Committee
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