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Title: Allen's Dollar Store blanket sale
Creator: Winstead (5578)
Date Created and/or Issued: 10/11/1928
Contributing Institution: Long Beach Public Library
Collection: Long Beach Photos
Rights Information: For information about copyright and ordering images from the LBPL Digital Archive, see https://www.longbeach.gov/library/research/long-beach-history-and-special-collections/.
Description: Here is an interior view of Allen's Dollar Store at 240 Pine Avenue, during a blanket sale. The camera is looking down onto the mercandise floor where a large crowd of people fill the aisles in the center of the image. Girl's middy-style school uniforms are noted on display in the right foreground. The photographer has etched onto the front of the image this message: "Allen's Dollar Store Blanket Sale; Oct 11 - 1928. 9.15 A.M." DATE NOTES: Noted on image back. ORIG. IMAGE: 8" x 10" B&W glossy print. NEGATIVE: Yes. KEYWORDS: Fashion.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Identifier: LBPL_5578W.tiff
http://lbpl.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p17164coll3/id/3907
Subject: Department Stores--California, Southern--History. Women
Source: Winstead Co. donation
Relation: Business Firms - Department and Clothing Stores

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