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Title
A woman selling pumpkins on Sunset Boulevard just west of Western Avenue looking north, ca.1896
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1896
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 a woman selling pumpkins on Sunset Boulevard just west of Western Avenue looking north, ca.1896. Picture file card reads "opposite of Fox Studios". The woman, in a dress and hat, stands at a table on which several pumpkins are stacked, and one lays to the side, cut open. A line of small trees is visible in the background across the unpaved road. Tree foliage hangs in from above.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m321
USC-1-1-1-319 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-6406
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m321
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-6406.jpg
Subject
Fox Studio
Los Angeles--Streets--Sunset Boulevard
Streets
Women
Pumpkin
Motion picture studios
Roadways
Time Period
circa 1896
Place
California
Los Angeles
Sunset Boulevard & Western Avenue
USA
Source
1-13-28 [Microfiche number]
6406 [Accession number]
CHS-6406 [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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