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Title: Portrait at a cemetary
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1945
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 portrait of the deceased, male and in a suit and tie, is encased in floral decorations and stands on the deceased's newly-dug gravesite. Another section of the graveyard (background) is enclosed by wire fencing. All headstones are in Chinese. A light-colored headstone, lower left, states in English: Mar. 17, 1943, Lai Quon Wong. A dark headstone, center back, is for: Tom Tuen, 1867-1943.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00073411
Los Angeles Public Library Institutional Collection
A-010-401 4x5; L.A.-Cemeteries; GPC_b80
CARL0000076486
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/114758
Subject: Cemeteries--California--Los Angeles
Mourning customs
Funeral decorations
Sepulchral monuments--California--Los Angeles
Burial--California--Los Angeles

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