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Title
Women subduing a fake dragon on the sand of a Los Angeles area beach, ca.1940
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1940
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of women subduing a fake dragon on the sand of a Los Angeles area beach, ca.1940. Four women wearing bathing suits stand around a darkly colored dragon sculpture that sits atop a mound of sand on the shoreline in the center. Two women stand on the right while two stand on the left as they pull at the dragon. A wave that comes from the ocean is visible in the background.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w
26 x 21 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m10868
USC-2-1-1-11018 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-36304
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m10868
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-36304.jpg
Subject
Beaches
Women
Dragons
Recreation--Beach scenes
Time Period
circa 1940
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
42595 [Accession number]
CHS-42595; CHS-36304 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
USC
chs-m825

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