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Woman looking at a stack of Maycrest fancy back playing cards during the semiannual Dollar Day sale in downtown Los Angeles, February 17, 1940

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Title: Woman looking at a stack of Maycrest fancy back playing cards during the semiannual Dollar Day sale in downtown Los Angeles, February 17, 1940
Date Created and/or Issued: February 17, 1940
1940-02-17
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.
Woman in a hat looking at a pile of Maycrest fancy back playing cards, priced at 4 decks for 79 cents, 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
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: [Dollar Day]
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Dollar Day in LA - Feb. 1940
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: ark:/21198/zz002801xv
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Playing cards
Lifestyle
Shopping--California--Los Angeles
Source: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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