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Title: Twelfth Street "Colored Branch" of the YWCA, Los Angeles, 1928
Contributor: Los Angeles as Subject
Date Created and/or Issued: 1928-05-20
Publication Information: University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection: Library Exhibits Collection
Rights Information: 18111 Nordhoff St. Northridge CA 91330
Los Angeles Collection, Urban Archives Center, Delmar T. Oviatt Library, California State University, Northridge
telephone (818) 677-2832; fax (818) 677-2589
Description: Photograph of an exterior street view of the African-American branch or "Colored Branch" of the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA), on Twelfth Street, downtown Los Angeles, 20 May 1928.
Legible signs include: "Dinner, Y.W.C.A., May 20th, 12 P.M. - til - 8 P.M.", "11 8½" [address, i.e. 1108½], "1108, Mutual Realty Co., licensed real estate brokers, Titus [...]er, mgr.", "Elite", "1106A" [address], "478-330" [license plate].
Type: image
Format: photographs
Identifier: exbt-m144
exbt-LAS-08
http://doi.org/10.25549/exbt-m144
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/exbt-LAS-08.jpg
Subject: YWCA
Time Period: 1928-05-20
Place: 1108 12th Street
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source: item no: 8 [Identifying Number]
Relation: Library Exhibits Collection
Visual and Virtual Paths to L.A. Community Archives and Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Fall 2002
exbt-m36
Provenance: Los Angeles Collection, Urban Archives Center, California State University, Northridge

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