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Title: Marilyn Gates, child prodigy, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa March 21, 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.
Marilyn spends her days writing the words and music for songs she creates in English, French, and Welsh, as well as studying entomology without putting the bugs under and suffering.
Photograph appears with the article, "Child Adept at Harmony," Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar 1936: A1.
Text from newspaper caption: Marilyn Gates
Handwritten on negative: Marilyn Gates
Text from negative sleeve: 4444 - Marilyn Gates child prodigy [stamped:] Mar 25 1936
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_13626
ark:/21198/zz002hnvkp
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Gifted children--California--Los Angeles
Gates, Marilyn, 1923-1996
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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