Crowd of shoppers gathered next to a building during the semiannual Dollar Day sale in downtown Los Angeles, February 17, 1940

Title: Crowd of shoppers gathered next to a building during the semiannual Dollar Day sale in downtown Los Angeles, February 17, 1940
Date Created: February 17, 1940
Date: 1940-02-17
Publisher: Los Angeles Daily News
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description: Crowd of shoppers wait next to a building during the semiannual Dollar Day sale in downtown Los Angeles. Stores hired extra salespersons and the city arranged for extra streetcars and policemen to accommodate the more than 200,000 bargain-hunters who came out for the sale
Caption: Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Dollar Day
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Dollar Day in LA - Feb. 1940

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Lifestyle
Shopping--California--Los Angeles
Crowds--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002801wb
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Rights Country: US
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