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Title: Exotic tribal instruments
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1960
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: Elisabeth Waldo was born on June 19, 1918 in Yakima, Washington. She is is an authority on pre-Columbian music and an award-winning composer and violinist.
Photograph caption dated April 21, 1960 reads "Elizabeth (sic) Waldo tunes up Apache Indian violin for music lecture at Valley Center of Arts. At her feet are other instruments found in South America including slit drum, conch shell and square drums." Miss Waldo lives in Northridge.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00143223
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d052_f7_i26
CARL0005787230
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/71528
Subject: Waldo, Elisabeth
Women--California--Los Angeles
Singers--United States
Violinists--United States
Violin--California--Los Angeles
Musical instruments--California--Los Angeles
Northridge (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Portrait photographs
Valley Times Collection photographs
Time Period: 1951-1960

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