Sgt. Mike Donaldson, the "Fighting Irishman", World War I hero
Item Overview
- Title
- Sgt. Mike Donaldson, the "Fighting Irishman", World War I hero
- Date Created
- [circa May 16, 1927]
- Date
- 1927-05-16
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Daily News
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Notes
- Description
- Photograph of Sergeant Mike Donaldson, the "Fighting Irishman", taken during a trip to Los Angeles. Donaldson received the Congressional Medal of Honor for bravery under fire after rescuing six wounded comrades while under German attack during World War I. His visit to Los Angeles concerned film contracts relating to his life story.
- Caption
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Text from original nitrate sleeve: Cooper, Harry; Fairbanks, Douglas
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: "Mike" Donaldson
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
-
news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Names
- Donaldson, Mike, Sgt.
- Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
-
People
Portrait photographs
War
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz00253zsx
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
-
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .