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Title
Portrait of two Army Air Corps veterans receiving a gift of oranges in an unidentified location, 1940-1950
Date Created and/or Issued
1940/1950
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photographic portrait of two Army Air Corps veterans receiving a gift of oranges in an unidentified location, 1940-1950. The two men are in uniform and are facing each other near a wooden table in the foreground. Between them is a large pile of oranges. A large crowd of spectators is looking on, including a dark-haired woman at center who is handing the men cups. The onlookers are dressed in an Eastern European fashion, with many of the women wearing scarves on their heads.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
10 x 13 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m12922
USC-0-1-1-13074 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-33171
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12922
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-33171.jpg
Subject
U.S. History--World War II
United States Army Air Corps
War
Military
World War, 1939-1945
Uniforms
Soldiers
Orange
Citrus fruits
Time Period
1940/1950
Source
33171 [Accession number]
CHS-33171 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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