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Photograph caption dated October 29, 1959 reads "With President and Mrs. Eisenhower looking on from background, Martha Washington stands patiently as her creator, Mrs. Erma F. Austin of Van Nuys, carefully checks dress she made for Martha against picture of her inaugural ball gown."
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image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
Austin, Erma Fisk,--1879-1964 Eisenhower, Dwight D.--(Dwight David),--1890-1969--Art Eisenhower, Mamie Doud,--1896-1979--Art Washington, Martha,--1731-1802--Art Women--California--Los Angeles Collectors and collecting--California--Los Angeles Dolls--Collectors and collecting Dollmakers--California--Los Angeles Dollmaking--California--Los Angeles Dolls--Private collections Dolls--California--Los Angeles Handicraft--California--Los Angeles Books--California--Los Angeles Presidents in art Van Nuys (Los Angeles, Calif.) Portrait photographs Valley Times Collection photographs
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