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Title: Ball recipient of comedy award
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1949
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Photograph was edited for publication purposes.
Photograph caption dated December 12, 1949 reads, "Film and radio star Lucille Ball is the winner of the Jesters of America Comedy Achievement Award for 1949, according to the national organization, which is composed of humorists, writers and comedians. The star today received the loving cup presented her by the Jesters. She was selected as the person who has made the greatest contributions to American humor in the past year." The award was presented by Martin Ragaway and Leonard Stern.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00106641
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 5029
CARL0005305507
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/31562
Subject: Ball, Lucille,--1911-1989
Comedians--United States
Comedians--Awards--United States
Actresses--United States
Women--California--Los Angeles
Awards--California--Los Angeles
Portrait photographs
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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