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Max Yavno photographs of San Francisco and Los Angeles street scenes [graphic].
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Title:

Max Yavno photographs of San Francisco and Los Angeles street scenes

Creator/Contributor:

Yavno, Max., creator

Abstract:

Photographs include: "Ferry Building, San Francisco" (:1) depicting man reading newspaper and other figures standing before main entrance of the structure, and "Army Street, San Francisco" (:2) depicting storefronts and rows of houses, both published in Herb Caen's The San Francisco book (1948). "Pawnshop, Los Angeles" (:3), depicting a closed downtown L.A. storefront in the 1970s, was taken in the 1970s for the Los Angeles Documentary Project.

Date:

1947, 1976? (issued)

Subject:

n-us-ca
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Pictorial works

Note:

Title devised by cataloger.
Stamped on print versos: Photograph by Max Yavno. From the Estate of Max Yavno.
Print versos also include technical annotations and/or file code number annotations.
Dates determined from vendor description and citations on various online sources.
Max Yavno photographs of San Francisco and Los Angeles street scenes, BANC PIC 2014.039, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Type:

graphic

Physical Description:

graphic
photoprint
3 folders (3 photographic prints, mounted and matted) : b&w ; prints 41 x 51 cm or smaller, mounts 51 x 59 cm or smaller.

Language:

English

Origin:

California