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Title: Bob Hope back from Alaska yule tour
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: 1959
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: Title supplied by cataloger.
Photograph caption dated December 29, 1959 reads, "Hope Back From Alaska Yule Tour. "Just dropped in to thaw out," was Bob Hope's first comment as he returned from his eighth annual Christmas season tour to Alaska military bases. With Hope, bottom row, are Frances Langford, Patti Thomas and Jayne Mansfield, and top row, Skinny Ennis and Jerry Colonna. To greet Hope when he landed at Lockheed Air Terminal was his dog, Recession, center.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00084141
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d003_f16_i18
CARL0004762047
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/42540
Subject: Mansfield, Jayne,--1933-1967
Colonna, Jerry,--1904-1986
Langford, Frances
Ennis, Skinnay
Hope, Bob,--1903-2003
United Service Organizations (U.S.)
Comedians--United States
Pets--California--Los Angeles
Motion picture actors and actresses--United States
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Group portraits
Portrait photographs
Valley Times Collection photographs
Time Period: 1951-1960

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