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Title: Actress Jane Withers admires husband's clown
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: 1960
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: Jane Withers is best known for being one of the most popular child film stars of the 1930s and early 1940s, as well as for her portrayal of "Josephine the Plumber" in a series of TV commercials for Comet cleanser in the 1960s and early 1970s.
Photograph caption dated December 12, 1960 reads, "Ken painted it on wall at their new Saugus ranch." Former childstar and motion picture actress Jane Withers prepares to build a home for her world famous Jane Wither's doll collection that will be open to visitors.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00113141
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d013_f22_i29
CARL0005345795
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/48727
Subject: Withers, Jane,--1926-
Motion picture actors and actresses--United States
Women--California--Saugus
Pointing (Gesture)--California--Saugus
Clowns--California--Saugus
Mural painting and decoration--California--Saugus
Saugus (Calif.)
Santa Clarita (Calif.)
Portrait photographs
Valley Times Collection photographs

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