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Photograph caption dated December 13, 1960 reads, "Lori Downer, 21 months, plays with telephone receiver at West Valley police station with clerk Helen Walling. Little Lori wandered away from her home, 8337 Sylvia Ave., Northridge, Monday but was found by a neighbor who notified police. Her mother, Mrs. Ken Downer, told police: "I thought she was out playing.""
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image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm. Photographic prints
Los Angeles (Calif.).--Police Department Missing children--California--Los Angeles Clerks--California--Los Angeles Girls--California--Los Angeles Northridge (Los Angeles, Calif.) Valley Times Collection photographs
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