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Title: Camp craft brings enjoyment to a young cancer patient
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Sergieff, Mike
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1987
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: Title supplied by cataloger.
Camp Summersault, the collaborative effort of the American Cancer Society, Campfire USA, the Long Beach Cancer League, and other donors and volunteers is a free-of-charge summer day camp for children (between the ages of 5 to 13) who are cancer patients. At the camp, the campers and their siblings can make arts and crafts, take day trips, have barbecues, and enjoy other fun events.
Melissa Acosta, 10, shows off her newly decorated hat at Camp Summersault in Long Beach. Photograph dated August 11, 1987.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00085339
Herald Examiner Collection
HH_b033_f5_i9
CARL0002889895
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/26173
Subject: Camp Summersault (Long Beach, Calif.)
Camps--California--Long Beach
Children--California--Long Beach
Cancer in children
Long Beach (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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