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Title: Midget car racer in Cypress Park
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 1915
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: Title supplied by cataloger.; Image is a reproduction.
Alex in a midget race car he built himself on Roseview Avenue, then known as Sulfer Avenue, in Cypress Park. Aragon Avenue Elementary School is in the background.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;15 x 24 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00080023
Shades of L.A. Collection; Shades of L.A.: Belgian American Community; Shades of L.A.: Native American Community
S-015-048 120
CARL0004995514
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/81868
Subject: Aragon Avenue Elementary School (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Automobile racing--California--Los Angeles
Automobile racing drivers--California--Los Angeles
Elementary schools--California--Los Angeles
Schools--California--Cypress Park (Los Angeles)
Dirt roads--California--Cypress Park (Los Angeles)
Cypress Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Shades of L.A. Collection photographs
Shades of L.A. Native American photographs
Source: Ross, Alex

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