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Description:: Children line up in front of the Bozzani Motor Company while attending the dealership's annual Christmas party. A wide sidewalk passes across the foreground. A couple children stand near camera at right. Farther back, at center, a Santa Claus stands facing camera. Behind him, children form a line. The line enters the dealership, off-center to the left, and stretches across the image towards the right. A few police officers stand on the near side of the line. The dealership's facade extends across the background.
Date:: [circa December 24, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Hundreds of boys and men enjoy Christmas dinner, provided by the Los Angeles Newsboys Club. A sign in the back of the room cites the event as the 13th annual dinner.
Date:: December 25, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The camera hovers over a large crowd of children and their parents at the Wilshire Council P.T.A.'s Christmas party held at the Farmers' Public Market. The crowd occupies the lower two-thirds of the image and generally faces towards the right. To the right of the crowd, Edward Shaffer, dressed as Santa Claus, stands elevated from the crowd and hands out gifts to children in the crowd. He faces towards camera as he picks up a gift. The large pile of gifts sit the right of him. Behind and to the right of him, children form a line. Beyond Santa Claus and the crowd, cars park in a row. Farther back, the Farmers' Public Market stall stretches across the background.
Date:: December 21, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Related to the article, "CHRISTMAS PLANS LAID: City Ready for Observance Thousands of Children as Well as Grown-ups Will Be Remembered CITY AWAITS CHRISTMAS Plans Laid for Observance Thousands of Children and Grown-ups to Be Cheered by Charitable Groups," Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 1935: A1
Date:: December 21, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Children pose beside Santa Claus and his sleigh during the Shriners' Christmas party. About a dozen children stand in a cluster at left. They all don fezzes that read, "FS," and hold up the gifts they received. At center, a Shriner member stands to the right of the group and points towards the children. Behind him, from left to right, Santa Claus and Mickey Mouse stand in a sleigh. The Mickey Mouse character holds onto the sleigh's reins. Hoofed animals stand in partial view ahead of the sleigh at right. Painted scenery stretches across the background.
Date:: December 23, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Off-center to the right, Lieutenant Virginia White sits among several children during the Salvation Army's Christmas party at Polytechnic High School. Lieutenant White is dressed in all black and looks to the right of the camera. A young girl sits on her lap. Behind and to either side of her, 2 boys stand. The boy at left holds a toy airplane. Two more boys stand to either side of Virginia White's lap. Another girl stands at far left and holds a doll. Two boys sit on the ground in front of everyone. The children all hold small gift boxes. Folding chairs rest or hang from the wall at left.
Date:: December 27, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: This photograph appears with the article, "Needy of Los Angeles eat Christmas Dinners," Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec 1934: 1
Date:: December 25, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A photograph of the same event appears in the photo spread titled, “Pictures From Far and Near Tell Story of Christmas Cheer Through Land,” and with the caption, “Thousands of Children at Italian Party,” Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 1935: A22
Date:: [circa December 24, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Similar photographs appear with the article, "Thousands Given Feast," Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 1935: A2.
Date:: December 25, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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