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Photograph of a wheel on exhibit at the Los Angeles Museum, Los Angeles, 1939

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Title: Photograph of a wheel on exhibit at the Los Angeles Museum, Los Angeles, 1939
Date Created and/or Issued: January 1939
1939-01
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, "Lens Art Goes on Exhibition," Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan 1939: A1.
360 prints, chosen from a total of 1500 entries, are on display at the Los Angeles Museum in the international photographic exhibit. They demonstrate outstanding works of photographers sponsored by the Camera Pictorialists of Los Angeles.
The photograph of the wheel shows a large decayed wheel stuck partially in the mud. Another broken wheel can be seen partially buried in the mud behind it. The bottom of the photograph is written, Forgotten Wheels By Tom Imler, Jr.
Text from newspaper caption: This picture of half-mired decaying wheels tells a story of frontier desolation. Its creator, Tom Imler Jr., has given it the title of "Forgotten Wheels."
Text from negative sleeve: 15453 2 photographs in Los Angeles Museum int'l photography exhibit (see 1/18/39 article "Outstanding Camera Studies")
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_14811
ark:/21198/zz002j8g86
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Photography--California--Los Angeles
Exhibitions--California--Los Angeles
Wheels
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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