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Two Volunteer of America members prepare pies to share with an orphanage on Thanksgiving, Los Angeles, 1935

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Title: Two Volunteer of America members prepare pies to share with an orphanage on Thanksgiving, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: November 29, 1935
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 of children from an orphanage pressed against a window looking at three pies as two Volunteers from America slice a pie. None of the children featured in this photograph are named.
This photograph appears with the article, “Thanks giving Day Brings Hippiness[sic] and Turkey to Thousands in Southland,” Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 1935: 18.
Text from newspaper caption: Those on the outside envy orphans on the inside, cared for by Volunteers of America.
Text from negative sleeve: 4179—Volunteers of America-Orphanage on Thanksgiving day [Stamped:] DEC 24 1935.
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_13222
ark:/21198/zz002hncmf
Subject: Orphanages--California--Los Angeles
Thanksgiving Day
Orphans--California--Los Angeles
Pies
Community service--California--Los Angeles
Children--California--Los Angeles
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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