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Title: After fire at "Christmas house"
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1938
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: Open at last after much disappointment, including a fire that destroyed a home and rains that marred the decorations, Los Angeles' famous "Christmas house" at 919 Mathews Street, Boyle Heights, is shown here on December 16, 1938. Playing in the "snow" in front of the house are Jean Portland, left, and Windy Gilmore (wearing a bathing suit). Started several years ago by George C. Skinner, the decorated house attracts thousands.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00049715
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 7440
CARL0000053782
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/18384
Subject: Dwellings--California--Boyle Heights (Los Angeles)
Fires--California--Los Angeles
Christmas decorations--California--Los Angeles
Boyle Heights (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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