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Title
Interior view of the Tom Williams Tailor Shop, showing men examining fabrics, 1880-1920
Contributor
Forsyth, Ted
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1880/1920
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of an interior view of the Tom Williams Tailor Shop, showing men examining fabrics, 1880-1920. Large bolts of cloth can be seen stacked up in the middle of the room at center. Seven men in suits and ties are standing around the fabric and looking at it. More fabric can be seen on the walls of the shop at left and right. In the back of the room is a large sign that reads "Tom Williams, Union Tailor". Several framed pictures are hung on the wall in the background at left. Written on back of photoprint: "Property of Ted Forsyth, 1401 Victoria Ave., Los Angeles, 6. Ted Forsyth, Dept of Water and Power, Mi 4211, Sta-2338."
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegatives, b&w
10 x 13 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m1425
USC-0-1-1-1471 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-33362
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m1425
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-33362.jpg
Subject
Los Angeles--Architecture--Commercial--Stores--Tailors
Tailors
Clothing trade
Retail trade
Tom Williams Tailor Shop
Buildings
Time Period
circa 1880/1920
Place
520 South Main Street
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
33362 [Accession number]
CHS-33362 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
unidentified no: P82-1-2 [Identifying number]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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