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Title: [Olive West]
Date Created and/or Issued: 18uu
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: 2017-0930.
"a blind negress in a big vaudeville act - star part a voodoo woman - Tragic" -- handwritten on verso.
Was born Althea Olive Weston in San Francisco in 1857. Worked on stage, on radio. Died in 1943.
Type: image
Format: Unmediated
Sheet
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photograph : print ; 5 7/8 x 3 1/2 in.
Identifier: (C)001616255CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: West, Olive,, 1857-1943--Photographs
Actresses--California
Photographic prints
Place: California

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