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[Photograph album documenting aftermath of the Rodney King Riots, Los Angeles].
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[Photograph album documenting aftermath of the Rodney King Riots, Los Angeles]Abstract:
Snapshot photograph album documenting damage to buildings, including many identified by signs as black-owned businesses, and
other scenes taken in the immediate aftermath of the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles in 1992. Many images were taken from
a car driving on Crenshaw Boulevard and other commercial thoroughfares in the South-Central region of the city. The presence
of National Guard troops is evident in many images.
Date:
1992 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caRodney King Riots, Los Angeles, Calif., 1992
Riots -- California -- Los Angeles
Buildings -- California -- Los Angeles -- Photographs
Business enterprises, Black -- California -- Los Angeles -- Photographs
Crenshaw (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Photographs
South Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Photographs
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Photographs
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Title devised by cataloger.
Photographer unknown.
Generic spiral-bound album with gummed leaves covered in plastic.
No descriptive captions, annotations, etc.
Photograph album documenting aftermath of the Rodney King Riots, Los Angeles, BANC PIC 2019.032, The Bancroft Library, University
of California, Berkeley.
Purchase Langdon Manor Books LLC ; 2018.
Type:
graphicPhotograph albums.
Physical Description:
photoprint
approximately 75 photographs in 1 album and 1 folder, stored together in 1 box : color prints mounted to album leaves ; prints
9 x 13 cm, album 26 x 30 cm
Language:
English