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 Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photographic portrait of celebrated literary and cultural figure of Los Angeles, Charles F. Lummis, [s.d.]. Mr. Lummis is pictured seated here, dressed in a corduroy jacket and pants, possibly the green corduroy suit that became his trademark. His legs are crossed and rested to the right, while Lummis rests his left hand on his thigh. In the other hand he holds what appears to be the butt of a cigar up at chest level. His face is weathered and wizened, showing signs of both toughening and age. His white hair is thinning and wild, pulled far back off his forehead by his receding hairling. He looks to the far corner of his eyes off towards something outside of the right of the frame, knowingly. A handkerchief is wadded and stuffed into his jacket pocket at left.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w 26 x 21 cm. negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs
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