Showing posts with label 1970s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1970s. Show all posts

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
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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
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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
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"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
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