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Collection of photographic postcards of the Los Angeles Times building bombing
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Collection of photographic postcards of the Los Angeles Times building bombing
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A group of 13 photographic postcards documenting the destruction of the Los Angeles Times building after it was dynamited on October 1, 1910, by labor union activists. Most of the photographs feature different angles of the building destruction, some with fire engines, fire hoses, and smoke still visible. One photograph shows the destruction in "Ink Alley," where the bomb was set off, and another shows a printing press. An unidentified photograph appears to be of James and John McNamara and a woman standing in front of a house, possibly theirs. One of the photographs is captioned "Where first bodies were found ... raising debris to recover the dead." Some postcards have correspondence and stamps on versos.
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Buildings - Second - Bombing - Accounts
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Approx. 30 items. Subjects relate to the 1910 bombing of LAT building: 14-pp. report on the bombing and the circumstances surrounding it (with covering note by Durham J. "Durrie" Monsma; 3-pp. letter (7/8/1957) to LAT "Editor" from "Ernest Rhoads, Ex-Battalion Chief," L.A. Fire Dept., who not only fought the fire caused by the bombing, but spoke in person to "Tom [J.B.] McNamara" decades later in prison, and asked him, "Would you do it again?" The letter provides the answer and more details; several accounts of the bombing written in later years; lists of news clippings and editorials related to the bombing and trial; 12+ pp. headed "James B. and John J. McNamara - Papers, 1905-1961"; 30-pp. "Special Report," by "H.G. Otis," dated 10/31/1910 (30 days after bombing), "Our Sad Misfortune: the dynamiting and destruction of the Times Building."
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Aftermath of the bombing of the Los Angeles Times Building
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A view of the bombed Los Angeles times building with smoke still rising from the site. There is a policeman and a few spectators in the foreground.
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Buildings - Second - Bombing - Publications
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Approx. 22 items. Articles related to the 1910 bombing of the Los Angeles Times building. Articles copied or clipped from the following magazines: Westways; American History Illustrated; Southern California Quarterly (Spring 1988) - 2 articles, "The McNamara Case: A Window on Class Antagonism in the Progressive Era," and "The Fall of Job Harriman's Socialist Party: Violence, Gender and Politics in Los Angeles, 1911"; Labor History; Time; Sunday News; True-The Men's Magazine; Saturday Evening Post; Hampton's Magazine; L.A. Times; San Francisco Examiner; others.
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Buildings - Second - Bombing - Lawler, Oscar
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3 items: sheet with "DK/8/78" at top, with info about the other items; 50-pp. (89-138) transcription from Oscar Lawler Oral History. labeled "Chapter X: McNamara and Clarence Darrow Trials" (according to the UCLA online catalog, the oral history with Oscar Lawler was taped in 1959 and 1960); newspaper clipping of 1/4/1966, obituary of "Oscar Lawler, 90...Played prominent role in Investigation of 1910 Bombing of The Times Building."
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Collection of photographs and postcards of the Long Beach, California, earthquake
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A group of 36 snapshot photographs and photographic postcards, and two printed souvenir photo booklets documenting the range of destruction after the major Long Beach earthquake on March 10, 1933. Images chiefly show damaged buildings including churches, post offices, schools, houses, apartment buildings, and stores. Some images feature large cracks in streets and highways. Three photographs depict damage in Compton, and one was taken in nearby Lynwood. Identified photographers are Austin Studio, Long Beach; C.D. Douglass Studios, Montebello; Larry Lynde; and Pacific Studios, L.A.
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