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Title: Mural painting, Echo Park
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Neighborhoods Photo Collection;
Creator: Leonard, Gary
Contributor: Part of the Los Angeles Neighborhoods Project. Made accessible through a grant from the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1997
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: Block party to dedicate a mural painted in memory of a friend killed in a gang conflict. A bare-chest, unidentified man wearing dark sunglasses shows off his tattoos, some of which read: "West side", "Cuban pride", "Echo Park", "EP", etc. Several children can be seen sitting at tables behind him. Theresa Powers painted the 30' x 18' acrylic mural, located on Echo Park Avenue at Duane Street, with neighborhood youth. It reads, "Will we still be back being the same way?" Photograph dated August 23, 1997.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;29 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00067964
Los Angeles Neighborhoods Collection;
GPC_b1_f2_i13; A-009-243 4x5
CARL0000070746
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/3601
Subject: Murals--California--Echo Park (Los Angeles)
Streets--California--Echo Park (Los Angeles)
Tattoos
Body art--California--Los Angeles
Echo Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Neighborhoods Collection photographs
Portrait photographs
Powers, Theresa
Time Period: 1991-2000

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