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Title: Sam Rodia, a photo
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: King, Nick
Date Created and/or Issued: 1985
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: Photo of Sam Rodia. Rodia used New World artifacts of Los Angeles to bring his Old World images of southern Italy to life in his Towers. Rodia left Los Angeles in 1954 to settle in Martinez, near Berkley, with his family. His niece, Virginia Sullivan, cared for him in his last years. Photo dated: April 22, 1985.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photoprint :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00037135
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 7305 - Watts Towers.
CARL0000039674
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/11801
Subject: Rodia, Simon,--1879-1965
Simon Rodia's Towers (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Watts (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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