Protesters fleeing from tear gas during Los Angeles Railway strike, Los Angeles, 1934
Item Overview
- Title
- Protesters fleeing from tear gas during Los Angeles Railway strike, Los Angeles, 1934
- Date Created
- November 26, 1934
- Date
- 1934-11-26
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
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Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Notes
- Description
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Different photographs taken on the same occasion appear with the headline, “Police Hurl Tear Gas to Break Up Wild Strike Riot at Seventh and Broadway,” Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov 1934: 3.
Strikers and protesters running away from tear gas sprayed by officers on 7th and Broadway.
This photograph appears with the headline, “Police Hurl Tear Gas to Break Up Wild Strike Riot at Seventh and Broadway,” Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov 1934: 3.
In November of 1934, members of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees confronted the Los Angeles Railway Corporation to contract with their union in support of wage increases ad to operate under union rules. A strike followed when the union was challenged and railway operations were halted or slowed down on a number of occasions.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Longitude
- 34.045202
- Latitude
- -118.253387
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Crowds--California--Downtown Los Angeles
Strikes--California--Los Angeles
Railroad strikes--California--Los Angeles
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- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_14470
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002j82h1
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
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- Rights Holder
- The Regents of the University of California
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
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