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Title: Safe driving brings orchid
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: 1959
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: Title supplied by cataloger.
Photograph caption dated September 30, 1959 reads, "Safe Driving Brings Orchid -- Mrs. Harold Allen, a housewife, of 13355 Dronfield Ave., Sylmar, was grateful when presented an orchid by Sgt. Charles "Chuck" Sherwood for her safe driving practices. Sherwood made the presentation after directing Mrs. Allen over to the curb. Police Chief Winford Slaughter's men handed cigarette lighters to the men for their safe driving and orchids to women during weekend observance of safe driving practices."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ; 26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00084497
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d003_f33_i10
CARL0004766186
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/43200
Subject: Automobile driving--Awards--California--Los Angeles
Automobile drivers--California--Los Angeles
Traffic safety--California--San Fernando Valley
Orchids
Sylmar (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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