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Title
Protest freeway routing through park
Alternative Title
Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor
This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued
1955
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
Photograph was edited for publication purposes
Photograph caption dated October 3, 1955 reads, "Participating at protest mass meeting against routing of Golden State Freeway through Griffith Park are, from left, Assemblyman Vernon Kilpatrick; Karl L. Rundberg, of Los Angeles Civil Defense; Larry Norman, president of Park Commission; Mrs. Harold C. Morton, member of commission; Assemblyman Joseph Shell, and Maurie Luxford, commission member. In rear is Griffith Park club which will be destroyed for freeway route."
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00137899
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d045_f34_i19
CARL0005683225
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/67860
Subject
Los Angeles (Calif.).--Department of Recreation and Parks
Charts, diagrams, etc.--California--Los Angeles
Protest movements--California--Los Angeles
Land subdivision--California--Los Angeles
Land use--California--Los Angeles
City planning--California--Los Angeles
Express highways--California
Parks--California--Los Angeles
Women--California--Los Angeles
Men--California--Los Angeles
Legislators--United States
Griffith Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs
Portrait photographs
Group portraits
Time Period
1951-1960

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