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Title
Interior view of Tom Williams' tailor shop, showing men and women working in room, ca.1880-1889
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1880/1889
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 interior view of Tom Williams' tailor shop, showing men and women working in room, ca.1880-1889. Seven men and two women are viewed through a brick doorway facing the camera. At left, a man and a woman sit behind a table with sewing machines in front of them. To the right, the other woman sits in a chair with a cloth in her lap. In the background, five men are visibile. All but one wears a tie, but a small apron is fastened around his waist. At center, a man sits in the chair prominently facing the camera. The man wears a long sleeve shirt, tie, vest, slacks, and dress shoes. Sign above the brick opening of the building reads: "Tom Williams the Tailor, Repairing and Pressing".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
20 x 25 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m1426
USC-0-1-1-1472 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-41329
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m1426
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-41329.jpg
Subject
Los Angeles--Architecture--Commercial--Stores--Tailors
Tailors
Clothing trade
Retail trade
Tom Williams Tailor Shop
Buildings
Time Period
circa 1880/1889
Place
520 South Main Street
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
41329 [Accession number]
CHS-41329 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
unidentified no: P82-1-4 [Identifying number]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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