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Title: Volunteers piece together a tragic memorial
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Sergieff, Mike
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1988
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 August 16, 1988 reads, "Cynthia Greene assembles pieces of the National AIDS quilt at a West Hollywood workshop. Volunteers were given materials yesterday to create panels for the quilt that has grown six times its original size since first displayed last October in Washington, D.C., said Tom Trimm of the Names Project. The quilt memorializes those who have died of AIDS."
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00083248
Herald Examiner Collection
HH_b045_f4_i16-12
CARL0002873697
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/25612
Subject: NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt
Memorials--United States
Quilts--United States
West Hollywood (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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