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Title: Goodwill worker paints a toy, Los Angeles, 1938
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa December 8, 1938]
1938-12-08
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.
The man kneels in a crowded workshop, paining a wooden chair decorated with horses.
Goodwill workers repair 5000 dolls a year, secondhand toys that are donated to the organization and then given to the less fortunate.
Photograph appears with the article, "Cast-Off Toys Made Over," Los Angeles Times, 09 Dec 1938: A1.
Text from negative sleeve: 7395 - PORKEY PIG + LITTLE TOPSY + Workers repairing dolls GOODWILL INDUSTRIES Dec 10 1938
Text from newspaper caption: Bright paint from the brushes of toy department work-men make cast-off playthings glisten like new.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_14605
ark:/21198/zz002j8758
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Carts & wagons--American--California--Los Angeles
Painting--California--Los Angeles
Toys
Goodwill Industries of America
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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