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Title: Lillian Gish at stamp ceremony
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1975
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Lillian Gish in front a large blow-up of a 10 cent U.S. postage stamp depicting motion picture director D.W. Griffith. The commemorative stamp was issued on the occasion of Griffith's 100th birthday. Gish is pictured during a ceremony at the American Film Institute's Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills. Postmaster General Benjamin F. Bailar credited Gish for spearheading the movement to award Griffith a stamp. Photograph dated May 29, 1975.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 23 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00106734
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box Gish, Lillian
CARL0005329296
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/31933
Subject: Gish, Lillian,--1893-1993
Griffith, D. W.--(David Wark),--1875-1948--Portraits
American Film Institute
Actresses--United States
Women--California--Beverly Hills
Commemorative postage stamps--United States
Postage stamps--United States
Microphones
Greystone Mansion and Park (Beverly Hills, Calif.)
Beverly Hills (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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