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Title: Collector of Customs Al Cohn awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: March 30, 1935
1935-03-30
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
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Photograph appears under the headline, "High Commands of United States Fleet Change Hands in Colorful Ceremony," Los Angeles Times, 02 Apr 1935: 18.
Cohn holds the medal several inches away from his face between his thumb and forefinger.
Text from negative sleeve: COHN, AL 1935 CUSTOMS COLLECTOR
Handwritten on negative: Al Cohn, collector of customs 3-30-35
Text from newspaper caption: COHN CHERISHES PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL Collector of Customs Al Cohn with one of the 2500 Presidential medals coined at the Philadelphia mint in Roosevelt's honor. Similar medals have been coined for each President since Washington.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_1682
ark:/21198/zz002dc64z
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Medals
Collectors--California--Los Angeles
Presidential Medal of Freedom
Cohn, Alfred A., 1880-1951
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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