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Title: Demonstration at Los Angeles Plaza park, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa January 24, 1936]
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 Haynes Foundation funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
An unidentified woman, one foot on a soapbox, stands before stacks of magazines at a demonstration at Los Angeles Plaza park. A sizable crowd is gathered and Pico House can be seen in the background on the left.
This photograph may be related to the article, “Dole Group May Parade,” Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan 1936: A1.
Members of a local union, Officers of the Public Works and Unemployed League, had planned a parade in protest of dole (government aid) reductions announced by the Los Angeles City Relief Administration but their permit was denied by City Council. In lieu of the parade, they held a rally at the Los Angeles Plaza where several speakers took the stand.
Text from negative sleeve: 4372 – Speakers at Plaza
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_13536
ark:/21198/zz002hnrf5
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Demonstrations--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Plaza (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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