Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. The camera looks down on a small table at center that is set for a Thanksgiving meal. Atop the table and along the near edge, from left to right, sits cranberry sauce, a pie and dinner rolls. In the next row back, from left to right, are, a salad, a roasted turkey and a plate of apples and bananas. On the left side of the table, a cook stands and leans over the table to carve the turkey. Another, empty, table is visible behind him at left. This photograph appears with the article, "THANKSGIVING DINNERS BEGIN POURING INTO LOS ANGELES," Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 1938: A2 This photograph appears with the title, "THANKSGIVING DINNERS BEGIN POURING INTO LOS ANGELES," 22 Nov. 1938: A2 Handwritten text from negative sleeve: 15091 (Thanksgiving) [1938?] Text from newspaper caption: With fowl selling somewhat cheaper and with other items selling about the same except for celery and cranberries, which are higher, the average Thanksgiving dinner this year will cost about the same as last year. Times photo [Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 1938: A2] Handwritten on negative: 65th[?]
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_11810 ark:/21198/zz002h8nd8
Subject
Eating & drinking--California--Los Angeles Cooks Turkeys--California Thanksgiving Day Cookery--California--Los Angeles
Source
OpenUCLA Collections Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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