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Title
Arab American woman and friends
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
Circa 1993
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
Shades of L.A. Donor 0010 was born in Egypt in 1954. She met and married her husband in Egypt. Prior to that, her future husband and his brother had already visited the Los Angeles area. Donor 0010's future husband arrived in the Los Angeles area in the early 1960s and earned an engineering degree from California State University at Long Beach. His brother had arrived from Syria in 1954 to study film at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), earning his Bachelor of Arts degree from UCLA in Theatre Arts-Motion Pictures in 1957. After marrying in Egypt, Donor 0010 visited Los Angeles, where her husband bought a house, car and travel agency. For a time in the late 1980s they lived in the Mar Vista neighborhood of Los Angeles, and moved out to Diamond Bar in the mid-1990s. Donor 0010 became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1988.
Friends at party in home. Woman standing is Israeli, the rest are Arab Americans.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :color
Photographic prints
Identifier
00000842
Shades of L.A. Collection; Shades of L.A.: Arab American Community;
S-008-822 120
CARL0000000367
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/74720
Subject
Women--California--Garden Grove
Israelis--California--Garden Grove
Garden Grove (Calif.)
Shades of L.A. Collection photographs
Source
Akkad, Azza

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