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Description
5 images. Boy poses as girl to visit mother, 9 August 1951. Sammy Leonardi -- 11 years Joseph Leonardi (father) Josephine Leonardi (grandmother). Caption slip reads: "Photographer: McCarty. Date: 1951-08-09. Reporter: Cowles. Assignment: Sammy Leonardi (posing as girl). 43-44: Joseph Leonardi with son Sammy, 11, who posed as girl to get into hospital to see mother and new sister. (here Sam is as he really looks). 36: Sammy (dressed as girl) with father, Joseph Leonardi. 40: Sammy (dressed as girl) with Grandmother Josephine Leonardi. 41-42: Sammy Leonardi, 11, leaving hospital female attire, after successful visit to bedside of his mother, Donna, in effort to see his new baby sister. 35: Sammy (at mirror, using makeup)".
Type
image
Format
5 photographs : negatives, b&w 13 x 10 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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