Newsboys' annual Thanksgiving dinner

Creator

Preview

Identifier

20040191

Description

One hundred ten newsboys gather at the Elks Club enjoying their annual Thanksgiving dinner. At the dinner, Monroe Odom, West Seventh streets news vendor, reading cablegram from Amon G. Carter, publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, who is in London. Odom is standing next to a United States Flag on a pole. Odom is wearing a plaid jacket and dark corduroy pants. An unidentified man, wearing a suit, is in the background sitting next to a piano. published in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram morning edition, November 27, 1942.

Archival Date

1942-11-25

Collection Name

Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection

Collection Number

AR406-6-892

Original Format

Negatives, Black & White

File Format

JPG

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License

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Subjects

Newspaper carriers; Newspaper vendors; Flags; Piano; Dinners; Thanksgiving; Fort Worth Star-Telegram; Elks Club; Telegrams