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
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Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. 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. A close-up photograph of the Porkey Pig doll and Topsy doll, Porkey leaning in as if to say something to Topsy while Topsy looks at him out of the corner of her eyes. Text from newspaper caption: Porky Pig tells little Topsy, who has seen better days and more clothing, to cheer up, for before many days she'll be made over and as good as new. Handwritten on negative: Porkey Pig + Little Topsy 12-9-38 Text from negative sleeve: 7395 - PORKEY PIG + LITTLE TOPSY + workers repairing dolls GOODWILL INDUSTRIES DEC 10 1938
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