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Title
Gobel touches off Valley polio drive
Alternative Title
Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor
This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued
1955
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
Photograph was edited for publication purposes
Photograph caption dated January 13, 1955 reads, "Comedian George Goebel [sic] of Sherman Oaks drops his contribution to 1955 March of Dimes campaign into collection test tube. Looking on are, from left, Sandra Lee Lockwood, 6, polio victim; Joseph Chase, chairman of Sherman Oaks drive, and Paul B. Humphrey, assistant chairman."
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00114544
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d015_f36_i2
CARL0005302108
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/48218
Subject
Gobel, George,--1919-1991
March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation
Television actors and actresses--United States
Motion picture actors and actresses--United States
Male comedians--United States
Men--California--Los Angeles
Girls--California--Los Angeles
Poliomyelitis--California--Los Angeles
Crutches--California--Los Angeles
Orthopedic braces--California--Los Angeles
Fund raisers (Persons)--California--Los Angeles
Fund raising--California--Los Angeles
Collection boxes (Fund raising equipment)--California--Los Angeles
Children with disabilities--California--Los Angeles
Signs and signboards--California--Los Angeles
Sherman Oaks (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Publicity photographs
Portrait photographs
Group portraits
Valley Times Collection photographs

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