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Currie's Ice Cream Store, 3701 Beverly , Los Angeles. 1937

Description: An interior view of Currie's Ice Cream Store at 3701 Beverly in Los Angeles. A woman and four men sit on benches at the counter and another woman sits on a bench against the wall on the far right. A large sign hanging on the wall describes the health and sanitation measures taken by the business and invites customers to inspect them. Smaller signs advertise the price of ice cream, buttermilk, hot chocolate, and pies.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1937
Call number: photCL Whitt 1347 ; Whitt neg. 0964
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The Harold A. Parker Studio Collection of Negatives consists of 5157 glass plate negatives, film negatives, and panoramic negatives, 1889-1949, that depict commercial, residential and landscape sites in and around Pasadena and Southern California. The images provide a look at the commercial, residential and social development of Pasadena and surrounding areas during the early years of the twentieth century. The collection is especially rich in images of residential architecture in Pasadena, Altadena, and San Marino; images of Lake Tahoe; depictions of, and activities at, the Raymond, Maryland, and Huntington Hotels in Pasadena; and the commercial, social and cultural landscapes of Pasadena. The collection also provides, through its breadth and depth of subject matter, an example of the career activities of a commercial photographer in Southern California in the early years of the twentieth century.

Currie's Ice Cream Store, 3701 Beverly , Los Angeles. 1937

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