Image: Part of Watts Towers, a collection of structures and art in the low-income Watts section of Los Angeles, California LCCN2013631540

Description: Title: Part of Watts Towers, a collection of structures and art in the low-income Watts section of Los Angeles, California Physical description: 1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color. Notes: Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.; The towers were built by Italian immigrant construction worker Sabato Rodia in his spare time from 1921 to 1954. Constructed from steel pipes and rods, wrapped with wire mesh and coated with mortar, the main supports are embedded with pieces of porcelain, tile, and glass, and are decorated with found objects. Rodia called the towers Nuestro Pueblo.; Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.; Forms part of: Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.; Gift; The Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation in memory of Jon B. Lovelace; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:063).
Title: Part of Watts Towers, a collection of structures and art in the low-income Watts section of Los Angeles, California LCCN2013631540
Credit: Library of Congress Catalog: http://lccn.loc.gov/2013631540 Image download: https://cdn.loc.gov/master/pnp/highsm/24300/24362a.tif Original url: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/highsm.24362
Author: Carol M. Highsmith
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License: Public domain
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