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Ordered to move from Chávez Ravine to make way for Dodger ball park

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Title: Ordered to move from Chávez Ravine to make way for Dodger ball park
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 caption dated April 10, 1959 reads, "Mrs. Abrana Arechiga, 63, weeps as she reads an eviction notice tacked on her home by Deputy Sheriffs, ordering them to move from Chávez Ravine to make way for the Dodger ball park. Five children are members of two families who must get off the property by 9 a.m. Monday."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;36 x 29 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00050955
Herald Examiner Collection
SCHH_b001_f4_i26; HE-002-501 4x5
CARL0000055014
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/23601
Subject: Crying--California--Los Angeles
Women--California--Los Angeles
Eviction--California--Los Angeles
Dwellings--California--Los Angeles
Lost architecture--California--Los Angeles
Chávez Ravine (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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