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Title
Poverty stricken people buy good sheets
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Contributor
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued
1979
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
Photograph caption reads: "Sheets hanging out to dry in top photo are (from left) t & j Vestor's striped single ($146); Porthault's flower-pattern double ($304); Pratesi's scarlet single ($160)". A woman hangs bed linen on a clothesline as she stands on the steps of a dilapitated apartment house. Photograph dated: July 3, 1979.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00083380
Herald Examiner Collection
HH_b055_f3_i28
CARL0000082515
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/25426
Subject
Sheets
Clotheslines
Urban poor--California--Los Angeles
Apartment houses--California--Los Angeles
Poverty--California--Los Angeles
Building deterioration--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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