Protesting farmers rally tractors at Federal Building in West Los Angeles, Calif., 1977

Item Overview

Title: Protesting farmers rally tractors at Federal Building in West Los Angeles, Calif., 1977
Photographer: Hodge, Bill
Date Created: October 23, 1977
Date: 1977-10-23
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Caption: OFF THE FARM--Farmers from Imperial Valley rally 60 tractors at Federal Building in West Los Angeles to protest the proposed 160-acre limitation on farm holdings. They later paraded to Century City, where President Carter spoke to $1,000-a-plate dinner at Century Plaza Hotel.

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Extent: 1 photograph
Dimensions: 35 mm.
Medium: b&w negative

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Genre: news photographs
Location: United States--Politics and government--1974-1977
Longitude: 34.056965
Latitude: -118.447689
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Farmers--California--Imperial Valley--Political activity
Acreage allotments--Law and legislation--United States--Public opinion
Activism
Family farms--Law and legislation--United States--Public opinion
Demonstrations--California--Los Angeles County

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