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Title: Jitterbug convention
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1939
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: "Out of this world" hep-cats, the best in the U.S.A. and six foreign nations, are "jamming" Los Angeles for an International Jitterbug convention. Photo shows Hal Chavoor and Betty Roeser, Pacific Coast champions, "going to town" as fellow swingsters admire. Photo dated: 1939.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00027834
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 8022 Jitterbugs.; HE-001-777 4x5
CARL0000030052
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/9881
Subject: Chavoor, Hal
Roeser, Betty
Swing (Music)--California--Los Angeles
Jitterbug (Dance)--California--Los Angeles
Dancers--California--Los Angeles
Dance--Competitions--California--Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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