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Title: Young boy plays with model train set at Toyland, Los Angeles, 1938
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa December 3, 1938]
1938-12-03
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
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
A young boy plays with a toy train set by The Lionel Corporation in Toyland during the Christmas season.
This photograph appears with the article, "Toys Built to Stand Wear Shown by Stores This Year," Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 1938: A1.
Text from negative sleeve: 15201. (Christmas 1938).
Text from newspaper caption: Youngsters invade Wonderland to confer with Santa: The whole maze of wonder and delight that is the youngsters' these days as they trudge from one store to another to make their choice of what they want for Christmas and to tell Santa Claus about it, is depicted in this photo montage of Toyland. [Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 1938: A1]
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_11931
ark:/21198/zz002h8sks
Subject: Children--California--Los Angeles
Toys
Christmas
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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