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Title: Benefit exhibition at Lake Encino Racquet Club
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Creator: Brich, George
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1963
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Photograph was edited for publication purposes; Title supplied by cataloger.
Photograph caption dated December 19, 1963 reads, "After tennis towel is given to actor Charlton Heston by Darlene Hard, first ranking U. S. women's singles player. Miss Hard and Heston staged an exhibition match against Billie Jean Moffitt and Robert Stack." The article partially reads, "At Lake Encino world tennis champions and celebrities gather to stage a benefit exhibition to officially open the Valley's first tennis club, the Lake Encino Racquet Club."; See images #00117085 through #00117086 for all photos in this series.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00117085
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d019_f15_i16
CARL0005342778
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/50792
Subject: Heston, Charlton
Hard, Darlene
Lake Encino Racquet Club (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Tennis--California--Los Angeles
Motion picture actors and actresses--United States
Women tennis players--United States
Tennis players--United States
Tennis clubs--California--Los Angeles
Encino (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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