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Title: Hiroshima maidens' taken on tour of studios
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1956
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: Thirteen "Hiroshima maidens" who were scarred by the atom-bombing of Hiroshima during World War II, pose on the steps of the Hollywood church before being taken on a tour of the MGM studios. The women, ranging in age from 19 to 34, are returning to Japan after a year and a half of plastic surgery in New York. They were brought to this country by the State Dept. Photo dated: October 25, 1956.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00036828
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 10980.
CARL0000039636
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/11776
Subject: Nuclear explosions
Atomic bomb
Proving grounds
Japanese
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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