This image was part of a California State Library photographic history project documenting the daily lives and historical, political, and cultural contributions of California's diverse communities. On June 12, 1999, Long Beach residents donated to the Long Beach Public Library 398 family and personal photographs as part of this ongoing statewide project. Shown here visiting the Long Beach Aquarium of the Pacific, is four-year-old Alana McKean. She is dressed in casual denim overalls and t-shirt, and she is seated on a large, colorful, lifelike, concrete model of a sea turtle. Behind her are children's chalk drawings on a painted blue wall. DATE NOTES: Noted on image back. ORIG. IMAGE: 6" x 8.5" color glossy print. NEGATIVE: No. KEYWORDS: Animals, murals, reptiles.
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