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Black-and-white calavera mural, Boyle Heights

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Order Number	00163815
Title	Black-and-white calavera mural, Boyle Heights
Photographer	Hankey, Roy.
Collection ID	Roy Hankey Collection Los Angeles Photographers Collection
Location/Accession	GPC_b123_f5_s8
Date	1977
Physical Description	1 slide : color ; 5x5 cm.
Notes	Title supplied by cataloger.
Historical Data	This mural, sponsored by the Citywide Mural Program (CMP) was painted in 1974 by Virginia Torres and Robert Sarmiento. According to the CMP description, this no longer extant mural "...connects drugs and profit to capitalism and their devastating effect on American life."
Description	An untitled black-and-white mural representing drug temptation, greed, and death on S. Mathews at Fourth, across from Theodore Roosevelt High School, in Boyle Heights, February 1977.
Subject	Murals. Lost works of art. Chicano movement. Sidewalks. Commercial buildings. Mathews Street (Los Angeles, Calif.). Boyle Heights (Los Angeles, Calif.). Sarmiento, Robert. Torres, Virginia.
Coverage	1971; 1972; 1973; 1974; 1975; 1976; 1977; 1978; 1979; 1980
Format	Photographic color slides
Rights	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/Inc/1.0
Reproduction Information	Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Sub-Collection Name	Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection