Mothers of Van Nuys GI wins red tape battle of Shanghai
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Valley Times Photo Collection
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This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Photograph also used in a separate undated article. Photograph article dated October 17, 1950 partially reads, "The bleak Farallones Inlands, windswept guardians of the Golden Gate will be Freedom's signpost to Mrs. Martha Riege sometime tomorrow. Mrs. Riege, who one month ago was just another stateless person wandering through a labrynth [sic] of doubt and despair in unhappy Shanghai, arrives in San Francisco aboard the vessel, Olga Maersk, to begin a new and vastly different phase of her life... Mrs. Riege, a native of Czechoslovakia, who had lived in Shanghai for many years, faced the possibility of being departed to some other country where her chances of ever getting to the United States would have been slim." Photograph caption reads, "Victory, at last - Miss Ruth Riege examines a letter from her file of correspondence required in contracting people and groups in behalf of her mother, who arrives in San Francisco tomorrow."
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image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm. Photographic prints
Typewriters--California--Los Angeles Women--California--Los Angeles Mothers and daughters--California--Los Angeles Telephones Interiors--California--Van Nuys (Los Angeles) Dwellings--California--Van Nuys (Los Angeles) Letters Van Nuys (Los Angeles, Calif.) Portrait photographs Valley Times Collection photographs
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