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Title supplied by cataloger. Photograph caption dated September 18, 1959 reads, "Van Nuys Family Now U.S. Citizens. Members of the Van Wijk family, above, of 17305 Enadia Way, Van Nuys, are now U.S. citizens, after taking oath with 103 others in mass ceremony. Cornelia Van Wijk, 20, left, holds multi-autographed wooden shoes given her and her parents, Cornelius and Johana Van Wijk, right, by well-wishing friends and relatives in their old home town of Harrlem, Holland, when they came to United States five-and-a-half years ago. Cornelius Van Wijk is a design engineer at Lockheed. His daughter is pre-med junior at UCLA."
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image
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1 photographic print :b&w ; 26 x 21 cm. Photographic prints
Immigrants--California--Los Angeles Citizenship--United States Families--California--Los Angeles Van Nuys (Los Angeles, Calif.) Valley Times Collection photographs
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