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Title
Child ballerina and accordian player perform with ventriloquist Lucille King, 1951
Contributor
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966 (photographer)
University of California, Los Angeles. -- Library. -- Dept. of Special Collections (repository)
King, Lucille S. -- b. ca. 1892 (subject)
Contributing Institution
UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection
Bartlett (Adelbert) Papers
Rights Information
copyrighted
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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
On a stage, in the foreground, are a child ballerina and accordion player. To the far right sits an ventriloquist Lucille S. King, on a couch with her dummy, and an actor, dressed as a clown, sits on the floor. Even father to the left, offstage, stand several women.
This image is possibly related to the June 3, 1955 L.A. Times article "Ventriloquist to Head Show for Crippled Children".
Text from negative sleeve: Lucille King, Euclid and Carlyle, Witches etc 9/20/51, Doll Show etc
Type
image
Format
1 photographic negative
Identifier
edu.ucla.library.specialCollections.bartlett:2407
uclamss_1300_2470
2470
ark:/21198/zz002d428z
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Ballet dancers
Accordions -- California
Ventriloquists -- California -- Los Angeles
Child actors -- California
Actresses -- American -- California
Place
California
Relation
Adelbert Bartlett Papers. Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA

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