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Title
Freedom Train waiting line
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1948
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 second-day capacity crowd of 10,000 Angelenos stood in line for hours on February 24, 1948, to see the Freedom Train (arrow) at Exposition Park. Warnings were issued by officials that only those who were in line before 11 a.m. had a chance of getting aboard the train to see the documents on display.
Type
Image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00060150
Herald Examiner Collection
HE Box 11614.
CARL0000064139
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/24280
Subject
Freedom Train
Railroads--California--Los Angeles
Parks--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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