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Title: Willie Mae Thornton
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Haering, Michael
Date Created and/or Issued: 1981
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: Singer Willie Mae (Big Mama) Thornton on September 18, 1981. Her first hit was "Hound Dog" and she considers herself a comedian like Pearl Bailey.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00043406
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box Thornton, Big Mama.
CARL0000049112
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/14819
Subject: Thornton, Big Mama
Singers
Entertainers
Comedians
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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