Group gathered in the office of price administration, Los Angeles, May 4, 1946
Item Overview
- Title
- Group gathered in the office of price administration, Los Angeles, May 4, 1946
- Date Created
- May 4, 1946
- Date
- 1946-05-04
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Daily News
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Notes
- Description
- Photographer and others gathered in the Office of Price Administration with six dummies wearing signs that say: "This congressman committed political suicide. He voted against the O.P.A. by A.V.C." The American Veterans Committee hung the dummies from lamp posts and high wires at prominant intersections throughout the city in support of prolonging government regulation of prices.
- Caption
- Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Office of Price Administration
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Names
- American Veterans Committee
- Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Economy
Government
Hangings (Executions)--California--Los Angeles
Effigies
Activism
Photographers--California--Los Angeles
Price regulation--California--Los Angeles
Political strategies--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz00280hvk
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .