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Title: Nightfall II billboard
Creator: Gonzales-Day, Ken
Date Created and/or Issued: 2007
Publication Information: Scripps College
Contributing Institution: Claremont Colleges Library
Collection: Ken Gonzales-Day Collection
Rights Information: All rights are retained by Ken Gonzales-Day. For permission to use this item, contact the artist.
Description: Photograph of public art installation of "Nightfall II" in Los Angeles. Image affixed to a billboard on La Cienega Boulevard. Using archival records, Gonzales-Day went searching for California's historic hang trees. While some of the locations of the trees in this series are certain, others were taken in approximate locations that corresponded to the historical data available. For more information, see Lynching in the West: 1850-1935 (Duke, 2006).
Type: image
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: kgd00197.jpg
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/kgd/id/203
Subject: Lynching
Trees
Art Exhibitions
Billboards
Public art
Barbed wire
Telephone lines
Time Period: 2007-01-20 - 2007-02-28
Place: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Relation: Nightfall II billboard
Ken Gonzales-Day - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/kgd

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