United States-Mexico border crossing, Calexico, [1927?]
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Item Overview
- Title
- United States-Mexico border crossing, Calexico, [1927?]
- Date Created
- [1927?]
- Date
- 1927
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Bird's-eye view of United States-Mexico border crossing, with 2 security booths, about 6 cars and 1 truck, about 6 pedestrians, with building with arcade on Mexican side, other buildings foreground and background, and sign arching over road reading "Mexico." Other signs read: "Tome cerveza," "Drink Beer," "Mexicali," "Southern Club Cafe," "Special Fried Chicken Dinners," "Cafe Gabrinus," "Climax Cafe," "San Dieg[o]"
Possibly related to the article, “No Permit Needed at Mexican Border.” Los Angeles Times, 6 Jul. 1927. The article states: Calexico, July 5--Tourists who enter Mexico at this port for brief visits will no longer be required to secure card permits … or July 14, 1927, “New Regulations in Force at Border.” Calexico, July 13--Stringent new regulations requiring that all Americans crossing the international line to Mexicali secure a special permit was announced today … - Caption
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Text from nitrate negative sleeve: California, Calexico-Mexicali
Handwritten at edge of negative: Mexican American Line, Calexico, Mexicali, 2 - 5
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
bird's-eye views - Location
- Calexico (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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International
Government
Boundaries--Mexico
Immigration stations--California--Calexico
Boundaries--United States
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002d9ndg
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- 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
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .