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Title: Los Angeles Orphanage Christmas
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: Photo caption reads: "Los Angeles Orphanage children receiving toys distributed for Christmas by The Evening Herald and Express on December 21, 1938. Previously the children had written letters to Santa. On this day those letters were answered with presents. The trucks made the rounds of Los Angeles children's institutions and brought joy for 3996 little boys and girls, each one receiving an individual gift".
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00044489
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1650.
CARL0000047922
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/14032
Subject: Los Angeles Orphanage
Orphans--California--Boyle Heights (Los Angeles)
Orphanages--California--Boyle Heights (Los Angeles)
Girls--Institutional care--California--Boyle Heights (Los Angeles)
Christmas
Boyle Heights (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner (Firm)

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