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Title: Library open house
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: 1962
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 April 6, 1962 reads, "Charlotte Armstrong, award-winning writer of mysteries, will greet patients and personnel of the Veterans Administration Hospital in Sepulveda next Friday at library open house which will climax National Library Week. Miss Armstrong will discuss her writing career during the open house social hour from 2 to 4 p.m. in the recreation hall. She is the author of 15 books and numerous magazine stories." Seen on the mantle is an Edgar Award presented by the Mystery Writers of America, possibly the award she received for her novel, 'A Dram of Poison.'
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00131312
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d036_f31_i1
CARL0005530341
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/62164
Subject: Armstrong, Charlotte,--1905-1969
Mystery Writers of America--Awards
Authors, American--United States
Women authors
Books--California--San Fernando Valley
Awards--California--San Fernando Valley
San Fernando Valley (Calif.)
Portrait photographs
Valley Times Collection photographs
Time Period: 1961-1970

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