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Title: Canteen fetes Red Army birthday
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1944
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: Actress Bette Davis, using a Russian Kozak sword, cuts the birthday cake at a party at the Hollywood Canteen, commemorating the 26th anniversary of the Soviet Red Army. Two Russian sailors from a Soviet ship now anchored at the Los Angeles harbor, look on. Photo dated: February 25, 1944.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00059739
Herald Examiner Collection
HE Box 9799.
CARL0000063692
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/22841
Subject: Davis, Bette,--1908-1989
Hollywood Canteen
Armed Forces
Canteens (Establishments)--California--Los Angeles
Actresses--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
World War, 1939-1945
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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