Photograph was edited for publication purposes. Photograph caption dated January 13, 1942 reads "Film star Carole Lombard is shown shaking hands with Howard D. Mills, defense savings official for Southern California, as she left by Union Pacific train for Indiana, where she will speak at a war rally. She is the first actress to make a defense tour for the new Hollywood Victory Committee." Lombard, who died three days later in an airplane crash, was married to Clark Gable.
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1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm. Photographic prints
Lombard, Carole,--1908-1942 Hollywood Victory Committee Union Pacific Railroad Company Railroad travel--United States Actresses--United States Women--California--Los Angeles Men--California--Los Angeles Railroad cars--California--Los Angeles Handshaking--California--Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.) Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
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