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Title: Santa at the Hollywood Canteen
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1943
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: Christmas will be held at the Hollywood Canteen with Santa giving gifts to each serviceman attending. Group photo taken of starlets Shelly Winters, Lynn Merrick, Maxine Fife, Leslie Brooks, Santa Claus (Eddie Cantor), and some of the servicemen expected at the Canteen Christmas celebration. Photograph dated December 27, 1943.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00059753
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 9799
CARL0000063802
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/22888
Subject: Santa Claus
Winters, Shelley
Merrick, Lynn,--1919-
Fife, Maxine
Brooks, Leslie
Cantor, Eddie,--1892-1964
Hollywood Canteen
Motion picture actors and actresses--United States
Singers--United States
Soldiers--United States
Canteens (Establishments)--California--Los Angeles
Christmas--California--Los Angeles
Christmas trees--California--Los Angeles
World War, 1939-1945
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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