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. Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. This photograph is likely related to the article, “Tom Mooney Arrives; One Big Union His Goal,” Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan 1939: 2 Thomas J. Mooney disembarks a United Airlines express plane, greeted by a crowd of media and spectators. Thomas J. Mooney was a political activist and labor leader. He was convicted for the San Francisco Preparedness Day Bombing of 1916. Believed to be wrongfully convicted, he was pardoned in 1939. Text from negative sleeve: 15356 (Thomas J. Mooney in LA – union crusader) likely his 1/15/39 arrival by plane @ Union Station to speak @ Coliseum Handwritten on negative: Tom Mooney
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_14755 ark:/21198/zz002j8db8
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Labor leaders--California--Los Angeles Arrivals & departures--American--California--Los Angeles Mooney, Thomas J., 1882-1942
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