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Title: Chávez Ravine forcible eviction
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1959
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 used for an article dated May 9, 1988.; Used in the Exhibit: Play by Play - A Century of L.A. Sports Photography, 1899-1989.;Used in the Exhibit: L.A. Baseball: From the Pacific Coast League to the Major Leagues.
Several Chávez Ravine residents fought eviction, including Aurora Vargas, who vowed that, "they'll have to carry me [out]." Here, L.A. County Sheriffs forcibly remove Vargas from her home. Bulldozers then knocked over the few remaining dwellings; four months later, ground-breaking for Dodger Stadium began. Photograph dated May 8, 1959.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;29 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00081522
Herald Examiner Collection
SCHH_b001_f1_i64; HE-002-499 4x5
CARL0000048955
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/23891
Subject: Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office
Eminent domain--California--Los Angeles
Sheriffs--California--Los Angeles County
Evictions--California--Los Angeles
Chávez Ravine (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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