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Title
Give me a "J", "A" ,"I", "L," what does that spell?
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Neighborhoods Photo Collection;
Creator
McCulloh, Douglas
Contributor
Part of the Los Angeles Neighborhoods Project. Made accessible through a grant from the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued
Circa 200-
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.
Photographer's caption reads, "I gave the girl in cornrow braids and cheerleader outfit fifty cents to call her pimp. She hadn't skipped out, she told him tearfully. She'd spent the night in the lock-up at the twin towers downtown. She thought the man was a john. But he'd turned out to be a cop. Honest. It was a sting. No way to tell. She still had the jail bracelet on her left wrist. She would keep it on to prove she wasn't lying."
Type
Image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;24 x 36 cm. on sheet 26 x 38 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00081662
Los Angeles Neighborhoods Collection;
GPC_b4_f2_i39
CARL0004974167
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/3792
Subject
Street children--California--Los Angeles
Prostitutes--California--Los Angeles
Streets--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Neighborhoods Collection photographs

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