Image / ""Medusa's Head"", Boyle Heights

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Title: ""Medusa's Head"", Boyle Heights
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection
Creator: Hankey, Roy
Date Created and/or Issued: 1977
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Sponsored by the local community and the Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks, this mural was developed by Judy Baca with thirty members of the White Fence gang in 1973; it no longer exists.
The ""Medusa's Head"" mural on the entrance of the Wabash Recreation Center, 2765 Wabash Avenue in Boyle Heights, January 1977.
Type: Image
Format: 1 slide : color ; 5x5 cm.
Photographic color slides
Identifier: 00163794
Roy Hankey Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection
GPC_b123_f5_s7
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/135074
Subject: Murals
Lost works of art
Medusa (Gorgon)--Art
Doors
Chicano movement
Wabash Community Center (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Community centers
Wabash Avenue (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Boyle Heights (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Baca, Judith Francisca
Time Period: 1971-1980
Source: Hankey, Roy.

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