Destruction of communist literature from raid at Berkeley, 1934

Photograph. "Destroying all radical literature, raiders made a clean sweep of this library. Enraged by red activitiy in general strike, citizens decided to clean up Berkeley." -- Examiner clipping attached to verso, dated 21 July 1934. "No. 2-Berkeley, California... [...] club library communist literature [...] convincing experiment in Nihilism. [...]tured, and their contents, before be[...] torn that only a jig-saw puzzle fan could [...]" -- typed note attached to verso.