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Title
Housing exhibition in the basement of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce building, January 1938
Date Created and/or Issued
1938-01
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 housing exhibition in the basement of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce building, January 1938. A booth can be seen in the foreground at left. A bamboo wall forms the back of the booth, and a nude mannequin is visible at left. Fake flowers and trees decorate the booth. Several lighting fixtures can be seen on display at another booth at right. Lamps and sprinklers can be seen hanging from the ceiling overheald. Several large rectangular pillars are visible in the background.
Legible signs include, from left: "Equipment", "Display Creations in the modern manner by Grossman and Silvers Inc, Los Angeles", and "Intern[ational]".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : negative, b&w
13 x 18 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m30014 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-36835
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m30014
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-36835.jpg
Subject
Display boards
Exhibit booths
Exhibitions
Interior lighting
Mannequins (Forms)
Grossman and Silvers, Inc
Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce
Buildings
Time Period
1938-01
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
36835 [Accession number]
CHS-36835 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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