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Title: Bette Davis delivers welcome speech
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1942
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: Bette Davis, who with actor John Garfield, originated the idea of establishing the Hollywood Canteen, is shown delivering the welcome speech. Kay Kyser, whose band played at the opening, holds the microphone. Photo dated: October 5, 1942.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00059760
Herald Examiner Collection
HE Box 9799.
CARL0000063809
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/22891
Subject: Davis, Bette,--1908-1989
Kyser, Kay
Hollywood Canteen
Actresses--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Armed Forces
Canteens (Establishments)--California--Los Angeles
Conductors (Music)
World War, 1939-1945
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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