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Title: Expert flag maker, ninety, tells secrets of her craft
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: 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 caption dated February 17, 1956 reads, "Modern Betsy Ross - Mrs. Margaret Tronolone nearing 90th year holds flag she made for her husband, James, and picture of herself presenting flag aboard 'Old Ironsides' in San Diego Harbor in 1933. Mrs. Tronolone started making flags at 13."
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00113494
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d014_f12_i23
CARL0005283581
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/47193
Subject: Women--California--San Fernando Valley
Portrait photographs--1931-1940
Flags--United States
Dwellings--California--San Fernando Valley
San Fernando Valley (Calif.)
Portrait photographs
Valley Times Collection photographs

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