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Title: Baby Teddy Chavannes' first steps, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: circa October 15, 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.
A diapered baby, Theodore "Teddy" Chavannes, takes his first steps on the grass beside a sidewalk lined with palm trees. This scene was included in a Los Angeles Times feature called, "Miracle Eye" camera moments, which captured interesting and marvelous instances in photographs.
Text from newspaper caption on photo spread: The Times "Miracle Eye" camera looks on as Teddy, 15-month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Chavannes, "takes off" on his first attempt to walk; then he "levels off" and suddenly the "happy landing." ["Italian and Ethiopian Artillery Compared--'Magic Eye' Catches First Steps," Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 1935]
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 2655-- Teddy Chavannes, Times "Miracle Eye" camera captures 15-mo-old first steps, [stamped:] OCT 29 1935
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_9174
ark:/21198/zz002dh66s
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Babies--California--Los Angeles
Chavannes, Teddy, b. 1934
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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