/ Esperanza Mejia standing in a living room

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Title: Esperanza Mejia standing in a living room
Creator: Cancian, Frank (American, 1934-2020)
Date Created and/or Issued: 2000
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: Esperanza Mejia has two reasons for not using her training as a medical assistant: because she was shocked by the way doctors treated her mother, who was visiting from Guatemala, and because housecleaning pays more and constrains her less in her role as a mother.
Form/Genre: Image
black-and-white photograph
Original: black-and-white film
black-and-white photography
documentary photography
Identifier: ark:/81235/d8m83d
4187
ARTstor Record ID: 0288748
http://hdl.handle.net/10575/10911
Subject: household employees
domestics
housecleaner
Mejia, Esperanza
American culture
Time Period: 20th century
Place: Orange County (Calif.)
Source: Orange County housecleaners
Provenance: Frank Cancian scans from prints of negatives (2000); Frank Cancian, Orange County House Cleaners (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006), page VII

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