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Railway strikers overturn street car at Main St and 23rd, Los Angeles, 1934

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Title: Railway strikers overturn street car at Main St and 23rd, Los Angeles, 1934
Date Created and/or Issued: November 28, 1934
1934-11-28
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.
This photograph appears with the headline, "Vandals Upset Two More Cars as Strike Terror Continues," Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov 1934: 1, 10.
Text from newspaper caption: Seventy-five strikers rocked this car from its trucks at Twenty-third and Main streets shortly after 5:30 pm yesterday while four confederates held Conductor Thomason and Motorman Lyford helpless in their grasp. Twenty passengers on the car were pushed into the street as strikers started rocking the car.
Text from negative sleeve: 6546 – L. A. Ry Strike 1934 LA Ry Strike, 1934
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_14483
ark:/21198/zz002j82zr
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Street railroad accidents--California--Los Angeles
Street railroad strikes--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Railway
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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