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Title: Photograph of an African American man with mattress factory workers
Creator: Jarvis, Lucius E
Contributor: Turner, Steve (Art dealer)
Date Created and/or Issued: 1890?
Contributing Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
Collection: Steve Turner Collection of African-Americana
Rights Information: Public domain
Constraint(s) on Use: This work may be used without prior permission.
Use: This work is available from the UC San Diego Library. This digital copy of the work is intended to support research, teaching, and private study.
Description: Photograph of a group of mattress factory workers posing around two mattresses. An African American man wearing a dark suit stands with the group
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca)
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Photographer name printed on recto of mount: "Jarvis, Pasadena, Cal."
Lucius E. Jarvis established the Jarvis photographic studio in Pasadena with his father Benjamin Jarvis in the late 1880s.
Title devised by cataloger.
Pasadena, California
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph : print on card mount ; 14 x 22 cm (boudoir card format)
Identifier: ark:/20775/bb9326347r
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Photographs
African Americans
Mattress industry
Nineteenth century
Pasadena (California)
Place: Pasadena (California)

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