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Title
Exterior view of small home in Chinatown, 1939
Date Created and/or Issued
1939
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 exterior view of small home in Chinatown, 1939. At center, a small wooden home consisting of covered porch and shingled roof can be seen. Rectangular windows can be seen along the side of the building near a brick chimney. In front of the house, a dilapidated wooden fence can be seen. A series of vertical wooden boards can be seen to the right. Writing can be seen on two of the boards including, "Hauling" and "Contractor of heav...anywhere at any...". In the extreme background at left, another window showing chipped paint and a shattered window is visible. Previous version of record stated: "Small boarded up home with "Juan Apablassa" as ID".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
20 x 25 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m2152
USC-1-1-1-2212 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-41458
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m2152
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-41458.jpg
Subject
Apablassa, Juan
Chinese Americans
Dwellings
Los Angeles--Chinatown
Buildings
Time Period
1939
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
41458 [Accession number]
CHS-41458 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
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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