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Title: Vivian Cammack and Irene Alcalay with a wooden horse, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: July 1935
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 Arcadia funds.
Photograph appears with the article, "Gasoline-Drinking Wooden Horse Blows In," Los Angeles Times, 23 July 1935: 5.
The tree-horse of Centerville has won parade prizes for many years. It is powered with a one-cylinder motor.
Vivian holds a strap over the back end of the horse while Irene pulls on the reins. The "horse" is constructed of one long log for the body and four pieces of wood for the legs with an extended piece above the log for the head.
Text from newspaper caption: Centerville's famous tree horse takes Miss Vivian Cammack, left, and Miss Irene Alcalay for a ride. The log is from a pepper tree and is being taken to the California Pacific International Exposition to herald the American Legion State convention to be held at Fresno August 10 to 15.
Handwritten on negative: L2R Vivian Cammack Irene Alcalay 7-23-35
Text from negative sleeve: 1289 - Vivian Cammack Irene Alcalay wooden Horse 7-23-35 [stamped:] Jul 31 1935
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_7694
ark:/21198/zz002dff5r
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Carriages & coaches--American--California--Los Angeles
Wood--California--Los Angeles
Alcalay, Irene, b. circa 1913
Cammack, Vivian, b. 1913 or 14
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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