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Title: Playlet shows signing of constitution
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1955
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 September 20, 1955 reads, "The signing on Sept. 17, 1787, of the greatest document in world history - the Constitution of the United States - was re-enacted here today as part of Constitution Week observance. Dressed in full colonial costumes, 12 participants signed the Constitution at Board of Supervisors meeting. Judge William B. McKesson, foreground, plays the role of Benjamin Franklin."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 35 cm. on sheet 29 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00096196
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 103.
CARL0005065719
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/33492
Subject: United States.--Constitution
Constitution Week (U.S.)
Impersonation--California--Los Angeles
Historical reenactments--California--Los Angeles
Judges--California--Los Angeles
Costumes
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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