Image / Ghosts of the Barrio, public mural, Los Angeles, 1974

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Title: Ghosts of the Barrio, public mural, Los Angeles, 1974
Creator: Healy, Wayne
Contributor: East Los Streetscapers, photographer
Los Angeles as Subject
Date Created and/or Issued: 1974
Publication Information: University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection: Library Exhibits Collection
Rights Information: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
USC Libraries Special Collections
Wayne Healy
specol@usc.edu
Description: Photograph of Ghosts of the Barrio, 1974, a solo mural by Wayne Healy, acrylic on brick, painted on the side of a building (building 2731-37, near Lancaster Avenue) in Ramona Gardens, Los Angeles. The mural depicts seven men in the history of Mexican culture including an Aztek indian, a Spanish conquistador, and a mestizo, flanking four homeboys.
Type: image
Format: mural paintings (visual works)
photographs
Identifier: exbt-m137
exbt-LAS-01
http://doi.org/10.25549/exbt-m137
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/exbt-LAS-01.jpg
Subject: Mexicans
Mural painting and decoration
Place: California
Lancaster Avenue
Los Angeles
Ramona Gardens
USA
Source: item no: 1 [Identifying Number]
Relation: Library Exhibits Collection
Visual and Virtual Paths to L.A. Community Archives and Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Fall 2002
exbt-m36

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