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Don L. Overman, cocoa buyer, on vacation at the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, 1935

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Title: Don L. Overman, cocoa buyer, on vacation at the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: August 12, 1935
1935-08-12
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.
Photograph of cocoa trader Don L. Overman during a vacation at the Ambassador Hotel. Overman is holding a glass and standing next to a carved candelabra placed in front of carved wooden furniture.
This photograph (cropped) appears with the article, "Cocoa Buyer Tells Trend: Scarcity of German Trade Helps Impair Price, Says Visitor," Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 1935: 4.
Text from newspaper caption: Sixteen years a cocoa bean buyer on Africa's Gold Coast, Don L. Overman now is vacationing in Los Angeles.
Handwritten on negative: Don L. Overman. 8/12/35
Text from negative sleeve: 1687. Don L. Overman. Cocoa Buyer. 8/12/35. [stamped:] Aug 22 1935 .
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_10050
ark:/21198/zz002ddt01
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Business people--American--California--Los Angeles
Cocoa industry--Africa
Ambassador Hotel
Overman, Don Lawson, 1894-1940
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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