Image / Marimba band performing at the KHJ radio station, Los Angeles, circa 1929

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Title: Marimba band performing at the KHJ radio station, Los Angeles, circa 1929
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa August 26, 1929]
1929-08-26
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: A marimba band (unidentified) performs at the KHJ radio station as a weekly feature. The band specializes in playing early Spanish tunes. The negative is severely damaged at the bottom center, with cracks and missing pieces. There are smaller cracks on the top right of the negative. Possibly related to the article, "JAMBOREADORS ON AIR TONIGHT: Weekly Frolic Feature Will Begin at 8 o'clock Marimba Band Scheduled to Play Spanish Tunes Graf Banquet at Ambassador to be Broadcast," Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 1929: A5.
Handwritten on negative: KHJ Marimba Band
Type: image
Format: b&w glass negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_b3710_G2416
ark:/21198/z1xd6tn4
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Radio stations--California--Los Angeles
Marimba players--California--Los Angeles
KHJ-AM (Radio station : Los Angeles, Calif.)
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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