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Title
Newspaperboys tour Golden Gate city
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 was edited for publication purposes
Photograph caption dated August 24, 1957 reads, "Shown above enjoying sights of San Francisco are part of group of Valley Times newspaperboys who made trip aboard Southern Pacific's crack steamliner Starlight. Taking tour in bay city on glass-domed parlor bus are, from left to right, Jack Olnick, Al McCleod, John Dean, Peter Fruend, Richard Duncan, Jay Cottier, Valley Times newspaper dealer Paul Parker; Dennis Arnold, Billy Strange and dealer Bill Holmes. Boys won trip in latest circulation contest, one of many held throughout year for Valley Times newspaperboy organization. On trip boys saw International Settlement, Telegraph Hill, Chinatown, United States mint, Fisherman's Wharf, Golden Gate Bridge, Cliff House, Seal Rocks, Fleishhackers Zoo and enjoyed ferry boat ride to Oakland, passing under Oakland Bay Bridge, where they saw Treasure Island."
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00113980
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d014_f39_i11
CARL0005292127
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/47668
Subject
Valley Times (Firm)--Employees
Newspaper employees--California--San Francisco
Newspaper carriers--California--San Francisco
Buses--California--San Francisco
Paperboys--California--San Francisco
Boys--California--San Francisco
Men--California--San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)
Group portraits
Portrait photographs
Valley Times Collection photographs

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