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Title
Olvera Street, showing shoppers wearing sombreros, ca.1940-1949
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1940/1949
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 Olvera Street, showing shoppers wearing sombreros, ca.1940-1949. An awning reaches over a shop in the foreground while shoppers walk through the thin street below. Two women stand in front of a shop on the left with sombreros on their heads. A palm tree stands next to what appears to be a fountain on the far left with a wooden fence behind it. A second street can be seen in the background on the far left.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m3886
USC-2-1-1-3974 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-44563
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m3886
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-44563.jpg
Subject
Los Angeles--Plaza #7--Streets--Olvera Street
Stores, Retail
Souvenirs (Keepsakes)
Commercial sites
Time Period
circa 1940/1949
Place
California
Los Angeles
Olvera Street
USA
Source
44563 [Accession number]
CHS-44563 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
unidentified no: 40718; unidentified no: 84-1-535 [Identifying number]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
USC
chs-m825

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