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Title: Breaking the pinata, Los Posadas
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Overholt, Alma
Date Created and/or Issued: 1940
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: A high point of Los Posadas is the breaking of the pinata, an earthenware vessel filled with fruits, sweets and trinkets. Mrs. William Heiss scores a hit in the true style, blindfolded. Photo dated: December 21, 1940.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00050127
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 8775.
CARL0000054210
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/18097
Subject: Christmas
Festivals
Pinatas
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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