Image / Philo Truex "sculptor" and sand sculpture, Santa Monica, California

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Title: Philo Truex "sculptor" and sand sculpture, Santa Monica, California
Date Created and/or Issued: 1915
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Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: View of Philo Truex, a one-armed sand sculptor, pointing at his sand sculpture on the beach in Santa Monica, California, showing wounded soldiers in battle with the words "With little drops of water and little grains of sand I have showed you how my buddy died in Nomans Land [space] All donations are appreciated."
Title devised by cataloger. Date approximated by cataloger based on general style of photograph. Subject information from original negative sleeve as received: "Sand Reproduction of No Man's Land At Santa Monica With Philo Truex, 'sculptor.' Note: This man is a beggar and accepts money from onlookers."
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : glass negative ; plate 10.2 x 12.7 cm
Identifier: photCL_555
487499
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/16809
Subject: Sand sculpture
Sculptors
Photographs. (aat)
Glass plate negatives. (aat)
Place: Santa Monica (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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