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Title: Costumes at the Exposition
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1928
Publication Information: Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.; Print contains three images.
Native Americans in feathered headdresses pose arm-in-arm with women in harem pants at the 1928 Pacific Southwest Exposition in Long Beach. The Exposition was launched to commemorate the landing of the Spanish padres and the founding of California. The Exposition buildings, designed by architect Hugh R. Davies, were modeled on North Africa's walled cities. Photograph dated: [1928].
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;10 x 12 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00077500
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Long Beach-Exhibitions-Pacific Southwest Exposition-1928.; N-001-361.5 4x5
CARL0000079195
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/111105
Subject: Pacific Southwest Exposition--(1928 :--Long Beach, Calif.)
Exhibitions--California--Long Beach
Native Americans--California--Long Beach
Costumes
Architecture--California--Long Beach--Arab influences
Long Beach (Calif.)

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