Two young women in Spanish costumes placing candles on a 5-ft tall cake that has a model of the Los Angeles City Hall on top, ca.1930

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Photograph of two young women in Spanish costumes placing candles on a 5-ft tall cake that has a model of the Los Angeles City Hall on top, ca.1930. An up-close view of a large cake is visible in the center while a woman stands on each side wearing ruffled costumes. Full sized candlesticks cover the three tiers of the cake while a model of a tall building stands on the top. The ground beneath the cake is trimmed grass while palm trees and other trees are visible in the background.

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Title Two young women in Spanish costumes placing candles on a 5-ft tall cake that has a model of the Los Angeles City Hall on top, ca.1930

Subject Anniversaries (lcsh), Festivals and parades -- General (file heading), Los Angeles City Hall (subject), Parks (adlf), Rites and ceremonies (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1930

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm. (aacr2), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection), Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960 (subcollection)

Date Created 1930

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Copyright Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m10481

Identifier 40443 (accession number), CHS-40443 (call number), CHS-40443 (filename), chs-m825 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-13530 (legacy record id), chs-m10481 (legacy record id), USC-2-1-1-10628 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 13530

Unique identifier UC137428

Legacy Identifier CHS-40443.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.6 in × 20.9 in at 300dpi
42.1 cm × 53.2 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection 1890-1960

Description The more than 3,600 unique photographs of this collection document the Chamber's promotional efforts during the city's early years. In addition to stock photographs, there are pictures of the elaborate booths and displays that the Chamber prepared for use at state fairs and international trade shows. The photographic collection contains images showing the growth of important municipal enterprises, such as ground transportation systems, aviation, and shipping. In addition there are about 1,000 lantern slides in this collection -- not yet fully digitized.

Date Created 1860/1960

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