Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 USC Libraries Special Collections University of Southern California specol@usc.edu
Description
16 images. USS "Missouri" in port, 8 September 1954. Sergeant Rod Welch Sergeant Mike Butler General views of crowds, etc... Caption slip reads: "Photographer: Emery. Date: 1954-09-08. Reporter: Emery to Driscoll, etc.. Assignment: People jam to see USS Missouri, Long Beach harbor district & Pier A. 66: Parking area Pier A. 50: Broadway and Pico Ave. 48, 49: Traffic locked curb to curb on West Broadway Bridge. 51: Sweating motor officers Sgt. Rod Welch & Mike Butler fight losing battle at Pico Ave. and Ocean Blvd. 80, 81: Pico between Seaside Blvd. & the Embarcadero. 97: Closeup crowd waiting to board ship. 16: Looking down on ship's famed plaque about peace treaty, armed sentries, crowd. 17: Visitors on bow of Mo. Various other shots of lines of visitors waiting to climb gangplanks to ship in foreground are five-inch guns (in pairs) and 40mm rifles (in fours)."
Type
image
Format
16 photographs : negatives, b&w 10 x 13 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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