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Title
Walt Disney gets 'doctor of fine arts' degree
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1956
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.; Photograph also used for an article dated December 15, 1966.
At this time, the Chouinard Art Institute was located at 741 S. Grand View, Los Angeles. In 1961, Walt and Roy O. Disney helped with the merger between the Chouinard Art Institute and the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music to establish the California Institute of the Arts. The "Cal Arts" campus moved to Valencia in the early 1970s.
Photograph caption dated reads, "Left to right at Chouinard Art Institute ceremony: James Normile, Disney, Mrs. Nelbert Chouinard and Dr. Clarence Thurber."
Type
Image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00105255
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 2954
CARL0005206700
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/30723
Subject
Chouinard, Nelbert,--1879-1967
Disney, Walt,--1901-1966
Chouinard Art Institute (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Chouinard Art Institute (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Degrees
Doctor of arts degree--California--Los Angeles
Costumes
Degrees, Academic--California--Los Angeles
Animators--United States
Motion picture producers and directors--United States
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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