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Title supplied by cataloger. Photograph caption dated February 22, 1954 reads, "Musical shoe shine boy. Twelve-year-old Wayne Daringer, Toluca Lake elementary school student, polishes shoes of Valley Times Sports Editor Claude Newman. Wayne, an ex-Iowa farm boy, needs $25 for badly desired violin. He has $3 so far from shining shoes."
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image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm. Photographic prints
Shoe shiners--California--Los Angeles Boys--California--Los Angeles Child musicians--California--Los Angeles Toluca Lake (Los Angeles, Calif.) Valley Times Collection photographs
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