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Title
Footprints and handprints in concrete outside of Grauman's Chinese Theater, ca.1938
Contributor
Conrich, Robert S. (donated 1983)
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1938
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of footprints and handprints in concrete outside of Grauman's Chinese Theater, ca.1938. Legible writing in the concrete includes, from left to right: "With Many Thanks And Appreciate To Sid Grauman. Freddie Bartholome[...] 4-4-36", "Love To You All. Shirley Temple", "Fredrie M[...]", and "To Side With All My Sole Joe[...]Brown. My Mouth Print. 3-5-[...]". Several concrete slabs are devoid of autographs and handprints. Photoprint reads, "Footprints and autographs of the stars. Chinese Theatre. Hollywood, Cal. 27 2".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
10 x 13 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m3240
USC-0-1-1-3312 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-41630
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m3240
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-41630.jpg
Subject
Grauman's Chinese Theater
Los Angeles--Hollywood--Architecture--Commercial--Theaters
Theaters
Performance sites
Time Period
circa 1938
Place
California
Hollywood Boulevard
Hollywood
Los Angeles
USA
Source
41630 [Accession number]
CHS-41630 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]

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