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Title: Chinese vendor
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1940
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: Photo possibly by Harry Quillen.
A merchant sits in a worn wicker chair holding an open Chinese fan. He wears a cap and a long robe over trousers. Next to him are baskets and display tables covered with knicknacks and other wicker works. A paper lantern hangs above a sign "Chinese candies, nuts". In the background is a sign "Chinese dinners". Same vendor: photos 00073272, 00073247, and 00073246.
Type: image
Format: Postcards
Identifier: 00073248
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Portraits, Individual.; A-010-517 4x5
CARL0000076740
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/115040
Subject: Wicker furniture--California--Los Angeles
Vending stands--California--Los Angeles
Wicker baskets--California--Los Angeles
Costumes
China City (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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