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Title: Folk dance at the Exposition
Alternative Title: Eyre Powell Chamber of Commerce Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 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: Title supplied by cataloger.
Warriors dressed as North Africans perform a dance at the 1928 Pacific Southwest Exposition in Long Beach. The Exposition was launched to commemorate the landing of the Spanish padres and the founding of California. The Exposition buildings, designed by architect Hugh R. Davies, were modeled on North Africa's walled cities. Photograph dated: [1928].
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00077377
Eyre Powell Chamber of Commerce Collection
N-000-425.3 4x5
CARL0000079200
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/111100
Subject: Pacific Southwest Exposition--(1928 :--Long Beach, Calif.)
Exhibitions--California--Long Beach
Costumes
Architecture--California--Long Beach--Arab influences
Folk dancing--California--Long Beach
Entertainment
Long Beach (Calif.)

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