Object number:
2000.1.1625
Object name:
photograph
Date made:
July 4, 1969
Material / Technique:
gelatin silver
Dimensions:
H: 8 in, W: 11 in
Credit line:
The Oakland Tribune Collection, the Oakland Museum of California. Gift of ANG Newspapers.
Copyright status:
In Copyright
Copyright holder:
Oakland Museum of California
Content description:
Description: Four man in dirty, tattered clothes lay in and on sleeping bags under the shade of a tree in a park. Photo caption reads: Hippi Drome: members of Washington's Hippi-Land DuPont Circle Park, awake from their sleeping bags today. The circle named for a US Admiral of the 19th century is Washington's answer to Haight Ashbury in San Francisco and Greenwich Village in New York.
Concepts:
man; student; park; woman; sleeping bag; hippie; lawn; grass; tree; shade; sleep
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