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Title
Carole Lombard
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
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.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00106759
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 2137
CARL0005329333
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/32024
Subject
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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