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Scope/Content: Leidi Mejia studied to be a cosmetician so she would have an alternative to housecleaning. One night after class she was attacked while waiting for a bus. Soon after the attack she learned to drive--but not in the usual way.
Form/Genre
Image black-and-white photograph Original: black-and-white film black-and-white photography documentary photography
household employees domestics housecleaner Mejia, Leidi American culture
Time Period
20th century
Place
Orange County (Calif.)
Source
Orange County housecleaners
Provenance
Frank Cancian scans from prints of negatives (2000); Frank Cancian, Orange County House Cleaners (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006), page VI
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