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Title
Dinner to honor Brazilian nun, Sister Dulce
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1962
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
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Description
Title supplied by cataloger.; Photograph was edited for publication purposes.
Photograph caption dated November 13, 1962 reads, "At the party for Sister Dulce Lopes Pontes are, left to right, Mrs. Betty Yorty, Sister Dulce Lopes Pontes, Mayor Sam Yorty and actress Barbara Stanwyck." Sister Dulce founded the nonsectarian Sister Dulce Social Services Assn. in Salvador, Brazil, which serves the poorest people in that city. She was honored at the dinner, held at the Statler Hotel and sponsored by the Los Angeles-Salvador Sister Cities Committee.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00105564
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 2179
CARL0005199740
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/31080
Subject
Dulce,--Irma~,--1914-1992
Yorty, Sam,--1909-1998
Yorty, Elizabeth
Stanwyck, Barbara,--1907-1990
Statler Hilton Hotel (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Nuns--Brazil
Charities--Brazil--Salvador
Celebrations--California--Los Angeles
Mayors--California--Los Angeles
Politicians' spouses--California--Los Angeles
Television actors and actresses--United States
Motion picture actors and actresses--United States
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Portrait photographs
Group portraits

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