Color: Black; White
A black and white photograph of the polar bear rug in La Casa Nueva's Main Hall, ca. 1920s. The bear is eye-level at the center on the wood floor with the face at the front. The mouth is opened and inside is the tounge, fangs, and teeth. The nose and eyes are seen on the head, but only parts of the body at the left and right. In the center of the background is the arched glass door to the courtyard with light reflectiing through. Part of a shawl hangs from the baluster at the top. At the left is a lighting fixture with two flame-shaped bulbs, and at the right is the stairway. At the center of the back is a stamp with. "ANDERSON / Photo Service / EL MONTE." At the bottom of the left is the number, "31." The photograph was housed in Agnes Temple's album which is item 96.7.94.1 along with many other photographs which span 96.7.1.1-.93.1. Contact sheets 2000.159.1.1-.8 show the original positioning of the images within the album. With some stains and a mounting corner adhered to the bottom left, the artifact is in good condition overall.
Number-Units: 1
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Polar bears
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Two-dimensional, Photographs, Anderson Photo Service, Architecture--Details, Architecture, Spanish colonial--City of Industry (Calif.), Dwellings--City of Industry (Calif.), Doors, Rugs in interior decoration
