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Title: Child eating watermelon
Alternative Title: Eyre Powell Chamber of Commerce Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1926
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: A young boy is eating a watermelon at Anson Wholesale Terminal Market in 1926, seated on a stack of watermelons. The photo has racist overtones, as the photographer's label referred to him as a "coon eating watermelon."
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00063870
Eyre Powell Chamber of Commerce Collection
N-004-233.1 4x5
CARL0000067775
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/108521
Subject: Anson Wholesale Terminal Market (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Agriculture--California--Los Angeles
Fruit--California--Los Angeles
Watermelons--California--Los Angeles
Produce trade--California--Los Angeles
Children--California--Los Angeles
Racism--California--Los Angeles

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