Shades of L.A. is an archive of photographs representing the contemporary and historic diversity of families in Los Angeles. Images were chosen from family albums and include daily life, social organizations, work, personal and holiday celebrations, and migration and immigration activities. Made possible and accessible through the generous support of the Security Pacific National Bank, Sunlaw Cogeneration Partners, Photo Friends, California Council for the Humanities, the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, and the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation.
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Title supplied by cataloger.; Image is a reproduction. Roxie Kricorian was born in Mexico City but culturally considered herself Armenian-American. She was the daughter of Armenian Genocide survivors who immigrated to the East Coast around 1925. They later moved to Mexico City, where Roxie was born in 1931, before coming to the West Coast in 1945. Roxie attended Fresno State and was a longtime foreign language teacher at Ulysses S. Grant High School in Van Nuys, CA. In retirement, she was active in the Armenian Education Center. She died in 2018 at the age of 86. Portrait of an Armenian family at the end of the 19th century. Seated from left, Movahess Abrahamian, his mother Manan Topashian, his wife Margarit Abrahamian. Standing from left, nephews Sahag Kricorian and Manuel Kricorian, and niece Satenig Kricorian. Sahag and Manuel were killed in the war.
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