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Title: Los Angeles Orphanage Christmas
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1941
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: Photo caption reads: "Eager hands of homeless children are shown handling the cartons of Christmas gifts delivered at the Los Angeles Orphanage on December 19, 1941, by The Evening Herald and Express. On Christmas morning the boxes will be opened. Toys, requested in letters to Santa, will be distributed to these children who might otherwise be forgotten". Los Angeles Orphanage is at 917 South Boyle Avenue.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographi print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00044485
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1650
CARL0000047923
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/14033
Subject: Los Angeles Orphanage
Orphans--California--Boyle Heights (Los Angeles)
Children--California--Los Angeles
Christmas--California--Los Angeles
Orphanages--California--Boyle Heights (Los Angeles)
Girls--Institutional care--California--Boyle Heights (Los Angeles)
Lost architecture--California--Boyle Heights (Los Angeles)
Boyle Heights (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner (Firm)

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