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Title
Shirley Temple celebrates her 15th birthday
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1943
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
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Description
Photograph was edited for publication purposes.; Title supplied by cataloger.
Among the gifts received by Shirley Temple on her 15th birthday was a gardenia corsage from Pvt. Maurice Prince, 18 years old, of Brownwood, Texas, and member of the Palm Springs Unit of the Ferrying Division, Air Transport Command of the Army Air Forces. The soldier, soon to be an air cadet, is shown presenting the corsage to the almost-grown-up Shirley in the lobby of the Desert Inn in Palm Springs where she has been vacationing with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Temple. Pvt. Prince is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Herschel Prince of Bangs, Texas. Photograph dated April 26, 1943.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;24 x 20 cm. on sheet 26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00095360
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 5036
CARL0005050723
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/33388
Subject
Temple, Shirley,--1928-2014
Desert Inn (Palm Springs, Calif.)
United States.--Army Air Forces.--Air Transport Command
Motion picture actors and actresses--United States
Soldiers--United States
Parties--California--Palm Springs
Child celebrities--United States
Child actors--United States
Hotels--California--Palm Springs
Palm Springs (Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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