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Title: Musical shoe shine boy, Wayne Daringer with his violin
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
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: 1954
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 caption dated March 2, 1954 reads, "Begins fiddling career. Wayne Daringer, Tolua Lake Elementary School student, won't have to shine shoes for fiddle as he had planned. Here ex-Iowa farm boy tries out violin given by former Burbank painist. Offers of more free violins and even free lessons are pouring into Valley Times. That missing tooth came out in auto accident, taking $3 shoe shine money Wayne had earned toward purchase of violin."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00083910
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d003_f5_i14
CARL0002888838
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/42360
Subject: Child musicians--California--Los Angeles
Charity--California--Los Angeles
Toluca Lake (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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