Railway strikers overturn street car at Main St and 23rd, Los Angeles, 1934

Title: Railway strikers overturn street car at Main St and 23rd, Los Angeles, 1934
Date Created: November 28, 1934
Date: 1934-11-28
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: This photograph appears with the headline, "Vandals Upset Two More Cars as Strike Terror Continues," Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov 1934: 1, 10.
Caption: Text from newspaper caption: Seventy-five strikers rocked this car from its trucks at Twenty-third and Main streets shortly after 5:30 pm yesterday while four confederates held Conductor Thomason and Motorman Lyford helpless in their grasp. Twenty passengers on the car were pushed into the street as strikers started rocking the car.
Text from negative sleeve: 6546 – L. A. Ry Strike 1934 LA Ry Strike, 1934

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Los Angeles Railway
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.027240
Latitude: -118.267125
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Street railroad accidents--California--Los Angeles
Street railroad strikes--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_14483
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002j82zr
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Rights Country: US
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