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Title
Woman in costume posing near a banzai tree, ca.1930
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1930
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 a woman in costume posing near a banzai tree, ca.1930. A woman stands to the right of center with her hands up in a strange pose. The woman wears lightly colored costume made of sheer material wrapped around her entire body and forming a train to the left. A low table stands behind the woman with a tree extending up out of a vase that sits in the center of the table. The tree has not leaves while the wall behind is painted a single color with no decorations.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
26 x 21 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m10484
USC-2-1-1-10631 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-40445
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m10484
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-40445.jpg
Subject
Costume
Festivals and parades--General
Buildings
Time Period
circa 1930
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
40445 [Accession number]
CHS-40445 [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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