Demonstration at Los Angeles Plaza park, Los Angeles, 1936

Item Overview

Title

Demonstration at Los Angeles Plaza park, Los Angeles, 1936

Date Created

[circa January 24, 1936]

Date

1936-01-24

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

An unidentified woman, one foot on a soapbox, stands before stacks of magazines at a demonstration at Los Angeles Plaza park. A sizable crowd is gathered and Pico House can be seen in the background on the left.
Members of a local union, Officers of the Public Works and Unemployed League, had planned a parade in protest of dole (government aid) reductions announced by the Los Angeles City Relief Administration but their permit was denied by City Council. In lieu of the parade, they held a rally at the Los Angeles Plaza where several speakers took the stand.
This photograph may be related to the article, “Dole Group May Parade,” Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan 1936: A1.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 4372 – Speakers at Plaza

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Longitude

34.056270

Latitude

-118.238978

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Demonstrations--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Plaza (Los Angeles, Calif.)