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Title: Jim Hawthorne and Sam Schmo
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: 1950
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: Title supplied by cataloger.
Photograph includes radio DJ and TV personality Jim Hawthorne (right), his TV costar 3 year old chimpanzee Sam Schmo, and officer Art Fisher. Hawthorne campaigned for Honorary Mayor of Studio City with Sam Schmo as Chief of Police.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00124877
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d029_f26_i3
CARL0005424724
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/56525
Subject: Hawthorne, Jim
Sam Schmo (Chimpanzee)
Men--California--Los Angeles
Chimpanzees--California--Los Angeles
Police--California--Los Angeles--Uniforms
Television actors and actresses--United States
Municipal officials and employees, Honorary--California--Studio City (Los Angeles)
Disc jockeys--United States
Studio City (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Group portraits
Portrait photographs
Valley Times Collection photographs
Time Period: 1941-1950

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