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Title: Taking the oath to serve
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection;
Date Created and/or Issued: 1940
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 November 18, 1940 reads, “Their interviews over, physical examinations passed, a group of the draftees are shown at the City Hall steps where they took the solemn oath to serve the United States ‘honestly and faithfully against all their enemies.’” Additional photograph caption dated August 28, 1948 reads the same.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00058957
Herald Examiner Collection;
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/134991
Subject: Draftees
United States.--Selective Service System
United States--armed forces
Men
Loyalty oaths--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles (Calif.)

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