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Title: Portrait of a Creole dancer
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1925
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: Dancer and choreographer Baby Simmons poses for the camera with one leg bare. The picture is signed "To Edna, Who is always laughing and talking, Baby Simmons".
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00035631
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Dance-Personalities-Simmons, Baby.; S-000-044 120
CARL0000040541
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/95228
Subject: Simmons, Baby
African American women--California
African American dancers--California
Costumes
Creoles
Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.)--California

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