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A crowd of shoppers at Merchants' Dollar Day in downtown, Los Angeles, 1936

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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
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.
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.
Similar 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.
Text from negative sleeve: 3699 - Dollar Day Crowd 2-15-36 [stamped:] Feb 18 1936
Handwritten on negative: $ Day Crowd 2-15-36
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_12784
ark:/21198/zz002hmvh6
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Automobiles--American--California--Downtown Los Angeles
Stores & shops--California--Downtown Los Angeles
Street railroads--California--Downtown Los Angeles
Crowds--California--Downtown Los Angeles
Merchants' Dollar Day
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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