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Title: Rooftop Santa Claus
Alternative Title: Eyre Powell Chamber of Commerce Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1929
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: In this photo, Santa Claus has been caught red-handed climbing into a makeshift chimney on the rooftop of an unidentified building in Hollywood. This particular Santa Claus appears to be made out of plastic bags stuffed with newspaper, wearing a mask in ol' St. Nick's likeness. The top of a steeple - possibly a church steeple - is behind the chimney. The Amor Arms apartment building is visible in the background. Dated November 21, 1929.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00072161
Eyre Powell Chamber of Commerce Collection
N-000-507 5x7
CARL0000076708
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/114877
Subject: Santa Claus
Amor Arms (Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.)
Christmas decorations--California--Los Angeles
Christmas--California--Los Angeles
Chimneys--California--Los Angeles
Roofs--California--Los Angeles
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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