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Title: Sheriffs with 12-gauge shotguns, Watts Riots
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1965
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: Deputies shown with 12-guage shotguns getting ready to hold the Firestone Sheriff Station under arms in anticipaton of attack by rioters in the Watts area. Photo dated: August 14, 1965.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00036458
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1993
CARL0000039447
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/11586
Subject: Los Angeles County (Calif.).--Sheriff's Department--Officials and employees
Watts Riot, Los Angeles, Calif., 1965
Fires--California--Watts (Los Angeles)
Shotguns
Night photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Time Period: 1961-1970

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