Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Portrait photograph of John Alferi, taken from the chest up. He wears a suit jacket and patterned tie. He also has two lapel pins on his right jacket collar. A round pin with a star, and a pin that reads "HOOVER." Photograph appears with the article, "Bonus Marcher Praises Hoover," Los Angeles Times, 03 Nov 1932: A1. John Alferi started the bonus march movement and led a hundred men from Independence Square in Philadelphia to Washington D.C. in December, 1931. Instead of condemning Hoover however, as many ex-service men did, Alferi saw Hoover as a friend. Text from negative sleeve: ALFERI, JOHN. BONUS MARCH Handwritten on negative: John Alferi Text from newspaper caption: John Alferi Text on lapel pin: HOOVER
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_11080 ark:/21198/zz002h91vr
Language
English
Subject
Veterans' benefits--United States Alferi, John, b. 1888
Source
OpenUCLA Collections Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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