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Title
A crowd of shoppers at Merchants' Dollar Day in downtown, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued
February 15, 1936
1936-02-15
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
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Photograph appears with the article, "Merchants Will Repeat Dollar Day Tomorrow," Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb 1936: A2.
On Monday, all merchants who participated in the Dollar Day sale on Saturday will be putting the same items on sale so long as the quantities last.
An aerial shot of a bustling crowd of men and women walking the street. A store awning takes up the bottom left corner of the photograph. A man's shadow can be seen on the awning, possibly belonging to the photographer.
Text from newspaper caption: Dollar Day drew a host of shoppers into downtown Los Angeles yesterday. Four hundred stores offered merchandise at special prices. Here is a part of the crowd shown at Broadway and Seventh. Tomorrow also is Dollar Day.
Handwritten on negative: $ Day crowd 2 - 15 - 36
Text from negative sleeve: 3699 - Dollar Day Crowd 2-15-36 [stamped:] Feb 18 1936
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_12783
ark:/21198/zz002hmvgp
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Crowds--California--Downtown Los Angeles
Stores & shops--California--Downtown Los Angeles
Automobiles--American--California--Downtown Los Angeles
Merchants' Dollar Day
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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