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Title: Student paints a toy piano for charity, Los Angeles, 1938
Date Created and/or Issued: December 13, 1938
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.
The students of the Lafayette Junior High School have orchestrated a toy repair shop to distribute wagons, airplanes, boats, pianos, dolls and other toys to the children of Santa Fe Avenue School.
The boy smiles as he leans in front of a worktable applying paint to a miniature piano.
Photograph appears with the article, "School Starts Repairing Toys," Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec 1938: A1.
Text from negative sleeve: 15174 - Toys Lafayette Jr Hi School TIMES PHOTO BY ANDREW H. ARNOTT 12-13-38 [stamped:] Dec 13 1938
Text from newspaper caption: Toy piano is getting coat of paint so it will gladden heart of some youngster on Christmas morning.
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_11881
ark:/21198/zz002h8qvz
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Charity--California--Los Angeles
Charity--California--Lafayette
Students--American--California--Los Angeles
Toys
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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