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Title: Leidi Meija sitting on a couch 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: Leidi Mejia has two daughters. The older one was born in Guatemala in the last 1970s. She is now married and lives with her husband and three children in a nearby Orange County city. Monica, Leidi's younger daughter, was born in California in 1994. Leidi and Monica share an apartment with Leidi's nephew, Gabriel Ramirez. Leidi's sister, who lives about two blocks away, is also a housecleaner. She tells her story in a later chapter. Leidi and Esperanza have a brother, who lives and works in Southern California, and five sisters. Four live in Guatemala, one in the United States.
Form/Genre: Image
black-and-white photograph
Original: black-and-white film
black-and-white photography
documentary photography
Identifier: ark:/81235/d8mg1q
4139
ARTstor Record ID: 0288767
http://hdl.handle.net/10575/10930
Subject: household employees
domestics
housecleaner
Mejia, Leidi
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 32

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