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Waiting for Bus Stance, Downtown Los Angeles, California

Waiting for Bus Stance, Downtown Los Angeles, California
Waiting for Bus Stance, Downtown Los Angeles, California
Waiting for Bus Stance, Downtown Los Angeles, California
ArtistAmerican, 1913–2013
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Waiting for Bus Stance, Downtown Los Angeles, California
Date1950s
Place depictedLos Angeles, California, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 18 1/2 × 14 3/4 in. (47 × 37.5 cm)
 Mat: 24 × 20 1/4 in. (61 × 51.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Pilara Family Foundation
Object number2024.952
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance[Michael Shapiro Photography, San Francisco]; purchased by Pilara Foundation, San Francisco, 2006; given to MFAH, 2024.
Exhibition History"L.A. Unstaged: Three Decades of Folk Photography by Joe Schwartz", Skirball Museum, Los Angeles, December 1, 2005–April 2, 2006.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Signed, titled & dated in pencil, on mount verso

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