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Title
Central Library, Los Angeles
Alternative Title
Eyre Powell Chamber of Commerce Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1928
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
Children in foreign costume represent the different languages in which publications are available at the L.A. Public Library. View 6: Several children, all dressed in beautiful ethnic costumes, stand atop the library's stairs; they are all holding open books. The (visible) languages represented are: French, Hebrew, Japanese, Ruthenian, Greek, German, Italian, Armenian, Dutch, Roumanian, Icelandic, Lithuanian, Russian, Spanish, Norwegian, and Czech. Photo taken at the downtown branch of the L.A. Public Library.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00043248
Eyre Powell Chamber of Commerce Collection
N-004-349.6 4X5
CARL0000046823
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/103289
Subject
Los Angeles Public Library
Foreign language publications--California--Los Angeles
Libraries--Special collections--Foreign publications
Costumes
Libraries--California--Los Angeles
Children--California--Los Angeles

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