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Title: "Las Posados," celebration
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Ballew, Howard
Date Created and/or Issued: 1951
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: "Gifts shower down from pinata as it is broken in traditional climax of "Las Posados," Mexican Christmas celebration, here today. The little girls rushing to the gifts are some of 75 from the Los Angeles Orphanage, who were honored guests. Girl held on man's shoulder (right) had the honor of breaking the Pinata with a stick. The colorful event was held on stage behind the public library". Photo dated: December 11, 1951.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00049234
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 8775.
CARL0000053327
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/17626
Subject: Girls--Institutional care--California--Boyle Heights (Los Angeles)
Christmas--California--Los Angeles
Orphans--California--Boyle Heights (Los Angeles)
Pinatas--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Los Angeles Orphanage

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