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Title
Otto and Marion Winkelmann with homing pigeons
Alternative Title
Valley Times Photo Collection
Creator
Dean, Gordon
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
1961
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
Title supplied by cataloger.
Photograph caption dated August 24, 1961 reads, "Otto Winkelmann and his wife, Marion, examine one of their 50 homing pigeons. Winkelmann, secretary of a Valley pigeon club, often takes birds into countryside on weekends and lets them loose. The result: 'They always beat me home'."
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00083699
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d002_f28_i7
CARL0004763123
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/42752
Subject
Clubs--California--San Fernando Valley
Homing pigeons--California--Los Angeles
Husband and wife--California--Los Angeles
Northridge (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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