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Title: Daughter, 9, accepts awards for honored polio stricken dad
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: 1957
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.
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Description: Photograph caption dated April 15, 1957 reads, "Best award is a kiss - Kitty Magrath, 9, is proud of her daddy and lets him have big kiss to show it. After accepting awards for her father at formal parade review at Van Nuys Airport, she journeyed across town with recruiting Sgt. John Moore to see him at Sawtelle Veterans Hospital. Sergeant Magrath is in iron lung but still recruits for Air Force." See images 00154279 through 00154281 for all photos in this series.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print : b&w ; 26 x 21 cm.
Identifier: 00154279
Valley Times Collection;
HCNVT_d057_ f36_i1
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/127653
Subject: United States.--Air Force
United States.--Air Force--Officers
Poliomyelitis
Iron lung
Veterans' hospitals
Veterans--United States
Fathers and daughters
Award winners
Awards
Recruiting and enlistment
Girls
Men
Sawtelle (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Portrait photographs
Group portraits
Time Period: 1951-1960

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