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Title: Portrait of a Creole dancer
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1925
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: A young dancer named Mildred Washington poses in front of a stage curtain. The picture is signed "To Etna, The little Radio Queen! And how, from your friend Mildred Washington." This may have been taken at the Lincoln Theater (Watts?). They were originally part of the "Creole Cuties" dance group.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00035630
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Dance-Personalities-Washington, Mildred.; S-000-042 120
CARL0000040540
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/100061
Subject: Washington, Mildred
African American women--California
African American dancers--California
Costumes
Creoles
Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.)--California

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