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Title
Home is as near as phone
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
1958
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 caption dated December 23, 1958 reads, "Comdr. H. C. Finwald, right, of San Fernando American Legion Post 176 and Viola Morrison, center, 20th District's third vice commander, look on as unidentified patient at San Fernando Veterans Administration Hospital makes long distance telephone call to family. Funds for such calls at Christmas time are provided annually by legionnaires through cash donations made during year."
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00130739
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d036_f2_i29
CARL0005520087
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/61534
Subject
American Legion
American Legion.--San Fernando Post 176
Veterans Administration Hospital (San Fernando, Calif.)
Associations, institutions, etc.--California--San Fernando
Associations, institutions, etc.--Membership
Telephone calls--California--San Fernando
Hospital beds--California--San Fernando
Hospitals--California--San Fernando
Patients--California--San Fernando
Men--California--San Fernando
San Fernando (Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs
Portrait photographs
Group portraits
Time Period
1951-1960

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