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Title: Donald W. McLean eats a Christmas dinner at the Midnight Mission, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: December 26, 1935
1935-12-26
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.
Photograph appears with the headline, "Hundreds of Homeless Men and Needy Women Enjoy Christmas Day Feast," Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec 1935: 8.
McLean eats meat off of a plate in what appears to be a cafeteria with other people also eating surrounding him on both sides and behind.
Text from negative sleeve: 4179 - Donald W. McLean Xmas dinner Midnight Mission 12/25/35 [stamped:] Dec 31 1935
Handwritten on negative: Donald W. McLean 12/25/35
Text from newspaper caption: Donald W. McLean, 68, gets white meat.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_13217
ark:/21198/zz002hncfv
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Eating & drinking--California--Los Angeles
Homeless persons--California--Los Angeles
Holidays--California--Los Angeles
Meat
Veterans--American
Midnight Mission (Los Angeles, Calif.)
McLean, Donald W., b. 1867
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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