Women looking through a pile of rayon print dresses during the semiannual Dollar Day sale in downtown Los Angeles, February 17, 1940

Title: Women looking through a pile of rayon print dresses 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: Women looking through a pile of rayon print dresses, priced at $1.69, 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: Economy
Events
Lifestyle
Dresses--California--Los Angeles
Rayon
Shopping--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002801vt
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Rights statement: copyrighted
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Rights Country: US
Funding Note: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
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