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Title: Gary Cooper receives V.F.W. honor
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1941
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: Title supplied by cataloger.; Photograph was edited for publication purposes.
Photograph caption dated September 29, 1941 reads, "Gary Cooper, left, film actor, is shown receiving from James Kennedy, county council commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the V.F.W. Americanism Medal of honor, awarded to him for his 'outstanding display of patriotism and loyalty' in his role in the film, 'Sergeant York,' in which he portrayed Alvin C. York, World War hero."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00105939
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 915
CARL0005210693
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/33771
Subject: Cooper, Gary,--1901-1961
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States
Sergeant York (Motion picture)
Medals--United States
Motion picture actors and actresses--United States
Motion picture actors and actresses--Awards--United States
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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