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Title: Chinese vendor
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection
Creator: Quillen, Harry
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1940
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: A merchant sits in a worn wicker chair smoking a pipe. He wears a cap and a long robe over trousers. Next to him are baskets and display tables covered with knicknacks and other wicker works. A paper lantern hangs above a sign: "Chinese candies, nuts". The photo has a note: "Peanut's father, South side of wishing well." Same vendor: photos 00073246, 00073247, and 00073248.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00073272
Harry Quillen Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection
Portraits, Individual.; A-010-543 4x5; GPC_b81
CARL0000076737
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/120510
Subject: Wicker furniture--California--Los Angeles
Vending stands--California--Los Angeles
Wicker baskets--California--Los Angeles
Costumes
China City (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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