Simon Rodia and his Watts Towers, portrait

Item Overview

Title: Simon Rodia and his Watts Towers, portrait
Date Created: ca. 1953
Date: 1948/1958
Publisher: Los Angeles Daily News
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Notes

Description: Italian American immigrant Simon Rodia poses with his artistic creation, popularly known as the Watts Towers, in the background.
Simon Rodia single-handedly created the artwork over a period of 34 years on a triangular lot at 1761-1765 East 107th Street in Los Angeles.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 photograph

Keywords

Genre: news photographs
Names: Rodia, Simon, 1879-1965
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: People
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Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
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Rights statement: copyrighted
Rights Holder: UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
Rights Country: US
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