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Title
Bing Crosby and family at Frontier Village
Alternative Title
The big blow.
Creator
Associated Press
Date Created and/or Issued
1964
1964-10-26
Contributing Institution
San José Public Library, California Room
Collection
Frontier Village Collection
Rights Information
The San Jose Public Library California Room can only claim physical ownership of the collection. Users are responsible for satisfying any claims of the copyright holder. Permission to copy or publish any portion of San Jose Public Library California Room collection must be given by the San Jose Public Library California Room. For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact the California Room: http://www.sjlibrary.org/research/special/ca/contacts_index.htm
Description
Bing Croby's son celebrating third birthday. Sitting at table with birthday cake and decorations from left to right is Bing Crosby, his son Nathaniel Crosby, wife Cathy Crosby, and daughter Mary Francis Crosby. Nathaniel is blowing out candles on birthday cake as the others look on. Caption on photograph says,"(FX5) San Jose, Calif., Oct. 26--The Big Blow--Bing Crosby's youngest son, Nathaniel, is set to blow out his birthday candles at his third birthday party, held Saturday at Frontier Village in suburban San Jose. With the senior Crosby and son are Mrs. Cathy Crosby and daughter Mary Frances, 4. The group spent the day at Frontier Village, a family amusement park of 33 acres. (APWirephoto)(b21700ho) 1964."
Type
image
Format
image/jpeg2000
Scanned with Epson Perfection V500 Photo Scanner as a 800 dpi TIFF image in 16-bit Grayscale. Compressed to 8-bit and JPEG format using Photoshop CS3.
Extent
8 x 10 in.
Identifier
http://digitalcollections.sjlibrary.org/cdm/ref/collection/sjplfv/id/170
Language
English
Subject
Amusement parks
Birthday parties
Cakes
Children
Entertainers
Entertainment
Frontier Village
Time Period
Wild West in American history
Place
San Jose
California
Source
Frontier Village Collection, 1961-1980
Relation
Frontier Village Photographic Album 1

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