Search Results: Titles starting with L from Martin Hartzold

Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office (GPO), 1932. 9 1/4" x 6." 315pp. Light brown plain buckram cloth over boards with black ink squared ruling to front, titles to spine. Fold-out chart between pp.184-185 present and intact. Lengthy previous owner's inscription in blue ink to interior of front board. Ocassional underlining and marking to contents. Right margin just outside fo text inexplicably clipped on pp.19-20. Binding tight, sound. About very good overall. A scarce original copy of the "Richardson Report" on crime in Hawaii commissioned by President Hoover and carried out by Assistant U.S. Attorney General Seth Richardson in 1932 in response to a moral panic among Island haoles and mainland whites surrounding a perceived crime wave resulting from the highly publicized lynching of island native Joe Kahahawai. Jr. after his acquittal for an accused rape of a white woman, subsequent sham trial of his alleged killers (known as the "Massie Trial"), and their pardon by the… Read More

[Los Angeles, California], [ca. 1970's]. 8 black and white snapshots. Uniform prints on glossy Kodak-branded paper, each about 5" x 3 1/2." Fine condition. An undated, though seemingly-1970's series of snapshots capturing armed men standing at guard before the entrance of the Jewish Community Building at 590 N. Vermont Ave, just west of Downtown Los Angeles, as neo-Nazi protestors stalk the sidewalk out front holding Nazi flags and picket signs illustrated with swastikas above the phrase "NO TROOPS FOR ISRAEL." Prints are undated, though Kodak stamping to the versos, combined with multiple cars seen in frame, suggests early-to-mid-1970's, early in the existence of the Los Angeles chapter of the extremist Jewish Defense League, whose members are likely those standing guard, armed with machine guns, before the doors of the Building.