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The lost shirt
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The Bullock's Department Store Collection consists of 680 photographs, 2 boxes of ephemera related to Bullock's publicity and events, and 29 glass plate negatives, 1905-1971. It focuses primarily on the retail spaces, displays, departments, and employees at the downtown Los Angeles store once located at Broadway, 7th, and Hill Streets. The photographs document the various functions associated with the store including the full range of departments; window displays; store merchandising; employee activities and gatherings; children's parties and parades; advertising billboards; the August sales event and crowds; and construction scenes from 1912 and 1928. Photographers include Warren Bowen Studios; Brown and Warrington; Dubois Photo Co.; Frank C. Elliott; Jim England; Graham Photo; Keystone Photo; J.C. Milligan; Ernest Pratt; Otto Rothschild; Stagg Photography; Art Streib; "Dick" Whittington Studio; Whitland Locke Commercial Photography; and Witzel Photo.
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The celebrated cosmopolitan shirts
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Image of two vignettes advertising Cosmopolitan shirts; top vignette features three men in formal evening attire (tail coats, trousers, collared shirts, waist coats, white ties, and gloves) in a lavish home with large staircase, folded white shirt in circular frame to the left; lower vignette shows several men and a woman at leisure or on vacation near a large body of water, collared patterned shirts worn with caps, breeches and hose worn by the men, racquet, bicycle, ladies fan, parasol, and travel bag visible; two ships in the distance, folded patterned collared shirt in circular frame to the right.
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"…three bucks, shirts, and G strings". [Three Indian men in Western shirts]
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These studio portraits are of Native Americans from southwestern Arizona, and were probably taken in Bonine's photography tent in Yuma, 1880-1883.
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