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Title
Female workers assembling shirts at a Garment District factory in Los Angeles, 1940-1950
Date Created and/or Issued
1940/1950
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
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
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Description
Photograph of female workers assembling shirts at a Garment District factory in Los Angeles, 1940-1950. A row of small tables with sewing machines on them is set up at center, and women can be seen sitting on both sides of the tables, hard at work on a variety of shirts. At right, several racks of completed shirts are visible. A large window looks out on the city in the background at center, while a woman stands and watches the sewing at left.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m7986
USC-2-1-1-8118 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-33227
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m7986
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-33227.jpg
Subject
Clothing and dress
Fashion
Clothing trade
Clothing workers
Clothing factories
Factories
Industry--Clothing
Industrial sites
Time Period
1940/1950
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
33227 [Accession number]
CHS-33227 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
USC
chs-m825

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