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Title
Wicks wins first prize for poster design
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
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Description
Courtlandt Gross, left, President of Vega Aircraft, presents Ren Wicks with a war bond, the first prize in the professional class poster design, at the Advertising Club meeting held at the Biltmore Hotel. Wicks is shown holding the poster which won him the award. Poster reads, "It's your fight, Buy more war bonds and stamps." Photo dated: August 25, 1942.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00045423
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 9201.
CARL0000049704
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/16036
Subject
Millennium Biltmore Hotel (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Posters--California--Los Angeles
Savings bonds--California--Los Angeles
War tax stamps--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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