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Title: Family party
Alternative Title: Shades of L.A. Photo Collection
Contributor: Shades of L.A. is an archive of photographs representing the contemporary and historic diversity of families in Los Angeles. Images were chosen from family albums and include daily life, social organizations, work, personal and holiday celebrations, and migration and immigration activities. Made possible and accessible through the generous support of the Security Pacific National Bank, Sunlaw Cogeneration Partners, Photo Friends, California Council for the Humanities, the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, and the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation.
Date Created and/or Issued: 1963
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and educational use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/orderinguse.html for additional information.
The contents of this collection are restricted to personal, research, and non-commercial use. The Library cannot share the personal and/or contact information of the donors, their descendants, or associates who contributed photographs and oral histories to the collection.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.; Image is a reproduction.; Published as image 181 in Shades of California. Berkeley, Calif. : Heyday Books, c2001.
Two men perform a skit at a family gathering to celebrate the arrival of Kevork during his yearly visit from Jordan to see family in Los Angeles while Kevork embraces children Arthur and Raffi. The family, except for Kevork, immigrated to California from Jordan. The party is at 707 North Edgemont Street in Hollywood, in Los Angeles. From left to right, Vache, Bedros and Simon. In rear group, Shavarsh, Sarkis, Jack, Makrouhi, Arevalous and Takouhi. Front group, Arthur, Kevork, Raffi, unknown.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;20 x 20 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00000026
Shades of L.A. Collection; Shades of L.A.: Armenian American Community; Shades of L.A.: Jordanian American Community
S-007-664 120
CARL0004999285
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/80462
Subject: Families--California--Los Angeles
Parties--California--Los Angeles
Shades of L.A. Collection photographs
Shades of L.A. Armenian American photographs
Source: Dakessian, Sylvia.

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