Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 University of Southern California University Archives specol@usc.edu
Description
1 image. Los Angeles birthday, 3 September 1959. Elena Verdugo (Miss Los Angeles) George Cairns (decorating birthday cake). Supplementary material reads: "Elena Verdugo, 'Miss Los Angeles' for the Birthday Fiesta celebration today of the city's 178th birthday, helps George Cairns put finishing touches to the decoration of one of the two birthday cakes to be presented to acting Mayor John s. Gibson, and the city fathers tonight at Olvera Street".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : negative, b&w 10 x 13 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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