Showing posts with label 1970s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1970s. Show all posts
23 January 2011
04 December 2008
Gift From Heaven--Rancher Welcomes Rainfall During California Drought, 1976
Title: Raleigh Waller, cattle rancher, welcoming rain fall during drought in Covina, Calif., 1976
Published caption: GIFT FROM HEAVEN--Raleigh Waller, a Covina cattle rancher, shows elation as rain starts to fall on his parched grazing fields
Publication: Los Angeles Times
Publication date: February 4, 1976
Subjects: Covina (Calif.)
Droughts--California--Los Angeles County
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Climate
Ranchers--California--Los Angeles County
Ranches--California--Los Angeles County
Genre: News photographs
Phys. descr.: 1 photograph : b&w negative ; 35 mm.
Source: Los Angeles Times photographic archive, UCLA Library. Copyright Regents of the University of California, UCLA Library.
Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Photo ID: uclalat_1429_b758_282372
Copyright contact: 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
Labels:
1970s,
california,
cattle,
covina california,
drought,
grazing,
grazing fields,
rainfall,
rancher
03 December 2008
01 December 2008
Jon Voight As The Prince in "Hamlet" Los Angeles, California, 1976
Title: Actor Jon Voight as Prince Hamlet in "Hamlet" play in Los Angeles, Calif., 1976
Published caption: JON VOIGHT--his first "Hamlet"
Publication: Los Angeles Times
Publication date: March 9, 1976
Subjects: Actors--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles (Calif.)
Theater--California--Los Angeles
Voight, Jon, 1938-
Genre: News photographs
Phys. descr.: 1 photograph : b&w negative ; 35 mm.
Source: Los Angeles Times photographic archive, UCLA Library. Copyright Regents of the University of California, UCLA Library.
Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Photo ID: uclalat_1429_b760_282694
Copyright contact: 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
Labels:
1970s,
actor-actress,
jon voight,
los angeles,
theatre
28 November 2008
Photographer John Shearer On Assignment, Attica Uprising, New York, 1971
Photographer John Shearer on assignment outside Attica prison during a prisoner riot and uprising.
Location: NY, US
Date taken: September 1971
Photographer: Bill Ray
Size: 843 x 1280 pixels (11.7 x 17.8 inches)
Narratives From The 1971 Attica Prison Uprising, and further: Attica Revisited.
LIFE Magazine Photo Archive
Labels:
1970s,
Attica,
crime,
John Shearer,
New York,
News,
Photographers,
photography,
Prisons,
Riots,
Us
"Cabinets" For Bodies "Identified" As "John Doe" From The Riots At Attica, September 1971
Closeup of cabinets for bodies and labels which indentify them as "John Doe".
Location: NY, US
Date taken: September 1971
Photographer: Bill Ray
Size: 1280 x 841 pixels (17.8 x 11.7 inches)
I was pretty young when this happened, but I remember that the Attica Uprising lingered in the collective consciousness for a long time, and was only later forgotten as a tragedy and injustice. More information, here.
LIFE Photo Archive
Labels:
1970s,
Attica,
attica state prison,
crime,
John Shearer,
New York,
News,
Photographers,
photography,
Prisons,
Riots,
Us
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