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Title: Irving Watcher dressed up as Santa Claus delivers gifts, Los Angeles, 1938
Date Created and/or Issued: December 22, 1938
1938-12-22
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.
Irving Watcher dressed up as Santa Claus setting out gifts under a Christmas tree. Amongst the gifts are a football, a doll, a stuffed animal, a toy car, and a Lucky Strike bowling kit. Behind him is either a baby grand or a grand piano.
This photograph appears with the article, “Orphans Aided by Mannequins: Fifty Dolls Dressed for Distribution to Needy Children,” 22 Dec 1938: A1.
Text from newspaper caption: Jolly St. Nicholas reaches for another gift at Junior Chamber party.
Text from negative sleeve: 15201—IRVING WATCHER as Santa Claus. Jr. Chamber of Comm. Dinner, Dec 21 1938. [Stamped:] Dec 30 1938.
Handwritten on negative: Santa Claus Irving Watcher 12-21-38.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_11929
ark:/21198/zz002h8shr
Subject: Christmas trees--California--Los Angeles
Christmas presents
Santa Claus
Watcher, Irving, 1907-1988
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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