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Title: Retires to his pipes
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 January 23, 1957 reads "Alva E. Brooks, recently retired after 35 years with Post Office Department, the last 13 delivering mail in Magnolia Park district, is shown with some of his collection of 150 pipes." Magnolia Park is a neighborhood in Burbank.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print : b&w ; 26 x 21 cm.
Identifier: 00147078
Valley Times Collection;
HCNVT_d056_f30_i26
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/127065
Subject: United States Postal Service--Employees
Retirees--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Men--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Pipes (Smoking)
Collectors and collecting--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Portrait photographs
Time Period: 1951-1960

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