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Title: Esperanza Mejia's family portrait
Creator: Cancian, Frank (American, 1934-2020)
Date Created and/or Issued: 2001-11
Contributing Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Special Collections
Collection: Frank Cancian photographs of Lacedonia, Orange County housecleaners, and Zinacantan
Rights Information: This material is provided for private study, scholarship, or research. Transmission or reproduction of any material protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. The authors or their heirs retain their copyrights to the material. Contact the University of California, Irvine Libraries, Special Collections and Archives for more information (spcoll@uci.edu).
Description: Scope/Content: A family portrait made in November 2001 at Esperanza Mejia's request. The women, left to right, are Esperanza; her daughter, Gabi; her neice, Monica; and her sister, Leidi. The men, left to right, are Eduardo Juarez; Brad Guerre; her nephew Gabriel Ramirez; and her son, Francisco. Eduardo and Gabi and Brad and Esperanza were married in 2002.
Form/Genre: Image
black-and-white photograph
Original: black-and-white film
black-and-white photography
documentary photography
Identifier: ark:/81235/d8p25q
4170
ARTstor Record ID: 0288804
http://hdl.handle.net/10575/10961
Subject: household employees
domestics
housecleaner
family
Mejia, Esperanza
American culture
Time Period: 21st century
Place: Orange County (Calif.)
Source: Orange County housecleaners
Provenance: Frank Cancian scans from prints of negatives (2001); Frank Cancian, Orange County House Cleaners (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006), page 94

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