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Teatro de los Niños presents Las Albondigas, a Día de los Muertos performance at Self-Help Graphics, East Los Angeles, California, 1930 (Internet Archive)
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Teatro de los Niños presents Las Albondigas, a Día de los Muertos performance at Self-Help Graphics, East Los Angeles, California

1930Public Domain

A Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) event by Teatro de los Niños, the first Chicano theater group in the United States with children performers are performing in Las Albondigas, a Mexican folk tale of the family. This show was held at Self-Help Graphics and Art at its old location on Brooklyn Avenue (street name changed to East Cesar E. Chavez Avenue) and Gage Avenue in East Los Angeles. In this photo are seven performers on stage: three adults and four children. Some of them are dressed as the dead in a cemetery. Two of them are wearing white flowing loose fitting outfits with a hood and white face paint. Some others also have white face paint with red lipstick and are holding life size paper dolls and animals on a stick that have clothing adhered to them. Vibiana Aparicio-Chamberlin (photo donor) is wearing a green paper headress and is in the back left in the photo pointing to someone off stage. To the left and not on stage is a teenage boy sitting behind a snare drum. This image was provided by Vibiana Aparicio-Chamberlin for inclusion in the Foto East LA collection.

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