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Title: Helene Pirie shovels dirt, Los Angeles, 1926
Date Created and/or Issued: July 1926
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Wearing a sombrero Helene looks over her shoulder and smiles into the camera as she lifts a shovelful of dirt.
Photograph appears with the article, "Hoes and Hose: Being some closeups of members of the KHJ Garden Family," Los Angeles Times, 11 July 1926: H2.
Handwritten on negative: Queen Titania
Text from negative sleeve: [Children gardening] [KHJ radio juvenile correspondents "children's Hour" Queen Titania Dick Winslow Dolly Wright Muriel McCormack etc...(fairyland garden???)]
Text from newspaper caption: "Queen Titania," herself. She is known, outside of fairyland, as Helene Pirie.
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_5533
ark:/21198/zz002cvkd8
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Sombreros
Gardening--California--Los Angeles
Gardening equipment & supplies
Gardens--California--Los Angeles
Children--California--Los Angeles
KHJ-TV (Radio station : Los Angeles, Calif.)
Pirie, Helene
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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