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Title: Christmas comes early to beat death for leukemia boy
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: 1952
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 is close-up of Donny Chafin. Original photograph from newspaper clipping shows the whole family.
Photograph caption dated January 10, 1952 reads "Mrs. Leo Chafin, 7-year-old Donny, and Donny's father."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00137392
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d045_f25_i4
CARL0005677409
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/67554
Subject: Boys--California--San Fernando Valley
Leukemia in children--California--San Fernando Valley
Cancer--California--San Fernando Valley
Guitar--California--San Fernando Valley
Tricycles--California--San Fernando Valley
Toys--California--San Fernando Valley
Christmas trees--California--San Fernando Valley
San Fernando Valley (Calif.)
Portrait photographs
Valley Times Collection photographs
Time Period: 1951
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