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Title: Go-cart sideshow
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1930
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.; Print has two images.
A mural with speeding race cars titled "This is not a monkey speedway" advertises the Autodrome sideshow at an amusement park, probably The Pike in Long Beach. Costumed Native American men sit on the stage next to go-carts that have monkeys for drivers. Other Native American men and women flank the stage.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;10 x 13 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00077138
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Indians of North America-California.; N-006-079.1 4x5
CARL0000079069
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/111026
Subject: Amusement parks--California, Southern
Native Americans--California, Southern
Sideshows--California, Southern
Karts (Midget cars)--California, Southern
Ethnic stereotypes
Monkeys--California, Southern
Native Americans--Clothing

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