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Title: Bob Hope plans Christmas with troops
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: 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: Title supplied by cataloger.
Photograph caption dated December 5, 1955 reads, "Hope Plans Christmas With Troops. Comedian Bob Hope and his manager-brother Jack, left, make arrangements with military officials for Christmas show Bob will stage for U.S. armed forces personnel at Keflavik Air Force Base, Iceland. Performance will be Hope's fifth straight Christmas show for servicemen overseas. From left are Jack, Lt. Col. John E. Rhode, Bob and Capt. Osborne S. Beeney."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00084137
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d003_f16_i11
CARL0004762043
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/42536
Subject: Hope, Jack,--1898-1962
Hope, Bob,--1903-2003
United Service Organizations (U.S.)
Comedians--United States
Armed Forces--Officers
Valley Times Collection photographs

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