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Title: Playacting at golf
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Creator: Wissig, Harry
Date Created and/or Issued: 1933
Publication Information: Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce
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: Title supplied by cataloger.; Print has four images.
A woman golfer in shorts and halter looks on in horror as a Native American man in ethnic costume sprinkles something from his hand on the golf course at the Desert Inn Resort in Palm Springs. Spectators in the background laugh as they look on. On the side, right, is a young caddy boy dressed as an Indian; the other caddy boy, left, is dressed in swimming trunks. The photograph apparently was for publicity purposes. Photograph dated: 1933.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;10 x 13 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00077126
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Indians of North America-California.; N-003-373.4 4x5
CARL0000079078
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/111037
Subject: Desert Inn (Palm Springs, Calif.)
Golf--California--Palm Springs
Golfers--California--Palm Springs
Golf courses--California--Palm Springs
Native Americans--California
Palm Springs (Calif.)

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