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Title
Microphone marathon
Alternative Title
Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor
This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued
1951
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
Photograph was edited for publication purposes
Photograph caption dated January 11, 1951 reads "As a March of Dimes project, John Amos and Carson Pinkley, second and third from left, will attempt to break non-stop broadcast record by staying on radio station KAVL, Lancaster, for more than 600 hours. At left is Herbert Comstock, station manager, and right, Logan White, drive chairman."
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;8 x 15 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00137287
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d044_f35_i28
CARL0005650821
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/66982
Subject
March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation
KAVL (Radio station : Lancaster, Calif.)--Employees
Men--California--Lancaster
Fund raisers (Persons)--California--Lancaster
Radio stations--California--Lancaster--Employees
Associations, institutions, etc.--California--Lancaster
Microphones
Lancaster (Calif.)
Portrait photographs
Group portraits
Valley Times Collection photographs
Time Period
1951-1960

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