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Title: Molotov cocktail hurled at Douglas Outlet Co
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Rutherford, Frank
Date Created and/or Issued: 1966
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: A Molotov cocktail was hurled through a window at Douglas Outlet Co. during night's rioting in Watts. Police and firemen responded to the call at 2068 East 103rd Street, and dragged a burning mattress into the street. Fire was out within minutes. Boys were arrested. Photograph dated March 16, 1966.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00041023
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1993.
CARL0000044942
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/12744
Subject: Douglas Outlet Co. (Watts, Los Angeles, Calif.)
Watts Riot, Los Angeles, Calif., 1965
Fires--California--Los Angeles
Fire fighters--California--Los Angeles
Police--California--Los Angeles
Stores & shops--California--Watts (Los Angeles)
Streets--California--Watts (Los Angeles)
Watts (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Night photographs
Time Period: 1961-1970

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