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Crowd on the street during the semiannual Dollar Day sale in downtown Los Angeles, February 17, 1940

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Title: Crowd on the street during the semiannual Dollar Day sale in downtown Los Angeles, February 17, 1940
Date Created and/or Issued: February 17, 1940
Publication Information: Los Angeles Daily News
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Men, women and children fill the streets during the semiannual Dollar Day sale in downtown Los Angeles. Stores hired extra salespersons and the city arranged for extra streetcars and policemen to accommodate the more than 200,000 bargain-hunters who came out for the sale
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Dollar Day in LA - Feb. 1940
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Dollar Day
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: 22842
uclamss_1387_22842-06
ark:/21198/zz002801ss
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Lifestyle
Crowds--California--Los Angeles
Events
Shopping--California--Los Angeles
Economy
Source: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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