Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 USC Libraries Special Collections University of Southern California specol@usc.edu
Description
2 images. Navajo children (present dolls to Broadway-Crenshaw), 14 September 1953. Mrs. Elma Begaii (Fort Defiance, Arizona, presents dolls) William C. Berwick (Manager of The Broadway-Crenshaw). (Handout). Supplementary material reads: "From: Marj Shippey, The Broadway, MU-9311, Sta. 682 or 688. Mrs. Elma Begaii of Fort Defiance, Arizona presents token dolls to William C. Berwick, manager of Broadway-Crenshaw as a 'thank you' gesture from Navajo children for dolls received in the national contest sponsored by Seventeen Magazine, Save the Children Federation and The Broadway. The Navajo children -- many of them crippled -- are dressing 225 dolls to be distributed to underprivileged children throughout the world."
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : negatives, b&w 13 x 10 cm. image/tiff negatives (photographic) photographs
37.269174,-119.306607 California Crenshaw Boulevard and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard Los Angeles USA shopping center: Broadway-Crenshaw Center Mall (now Baldwin Hills-Crenshaw Plaza)
Source
10004-014 [Sleeve Number] University of Southern California [Contributing entity]
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