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Silent film star Juanita Hansen sorts through fan mail at the W.P.A. unit office of 1050 Santee Street, Los Angeles, 1936

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Title: Silent film star Juanita Hansen sorts through fan mail at the W.P.A. unit office of 1050 Santee Street, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: February 10, 1936
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.
After a hiatus in her acting career Juanita Hansen has signed on to a local Federal aid theater project which has brought an influx of letters from fans that are being sent to the W.P.A. unit office at 1050 Santee Street.
A smaller version of photograph appears with the article, "Mail Flows to Ex-Star," Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb 1936: A3.
Juanita Hansen smiles into the camera wearing a black hat and leopard print coat as she sits at a table stacked with various letters from admirers.
Text from negative sleeve: 3597 - Juanita Hansen (actress) W.P.G. 2/6/36 [stamped:] Feb 11 1936
Handwritten on negative: Juanita Hansen
Text from newspaper caption: Heaps of fan mail streamed to Juanita Hansen, star of the silent films when admirers heard she was employed on a local Federal aid theater project.
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_12676
ark:/21198/zz002hmqsd
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Actresses--American--California--Los Angeles
Hansen, Juanita, 1895-1961
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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