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Title
Los Angeles Times' delivery trucks, Los Angeles
Date Created and/or Issued
[between 1920-1939]
1920/1939
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
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Handwritten on negative sleeve: 3269. Times Trucks. [in box:] 6 [circled] 8/10--. call-% Vaccaro [stamped:] Jan 19 1936 Jan 21 1936
Eight unidentified men in a variety of clothes from suits and brimmed hats to jackets, overcoats, flat caps, and sweaters, stand next to nine Los Angeles Times' trucks, used to deliver papers. The trucks are lined up in front of the Los Angeles Times' building garages. The streets are wet, as if it just rained.
Carved into buildings: THE TIMES; LOS ANGELES TIMES
License plates: CALIFORNIA PC L 25 75; PC L 25 79; PC L 25 83, PC L 25 78
Text on sides of trucks: OLD AGE PENSIONS! American [illegible] SUNDAY TIMES; Los Angeles Times; GENERAL MOTORS TRUCK
On truck bumpers: GMC
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_12166
ark:/21198/zz002h85gj
Language
English
Subject
Buildings--California--Los Angeles
Trucks--American--California--Los Angeles
Newspaper employees--California--Los Angeles
Newspaper buildings--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Times (Firm)
General Motors Corporation
Los Angeles Times (Firm) Employees
Los Angeles Times Building (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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