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Man shapes a piece of pottery at the National Housing Exposition, Los Angeles, 1935

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Title: Man shapes a piece of pottery at the National Housing Exposition, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: 1935
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
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
An unidentified man shapes a small vase over a potter's wheel. Other pieces of pottery stand on the table in front of him.
Photograph appears with the article, "Home Show Extended," Los Angeles Times, 02 June 1935: 31.
Homeowners have been awarded an extra week's opportunity at the National Housing Exposition at the Pan-Pacific Auditorium on Beverly Boulevard east of Fairfax Avenue.
Handwritten on negative: 111 111 Barker Bros-
Text from negative sleeve: NATIONAL HOUSING EXPOSITION National Housing Exposition X
Text from newspaper caption: Pottery making as shown at Barker Brothers display at the National Housing Exposition. Shown here is a workman shaping another of the many artistic pieces of pottery, products of the western coast.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_6781
ark:/21198/zz002cx2ff
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Pottery--California--Los Angeles
Pottery making--California--Los Angeles
Barker Bros
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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