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Comforting work. Murray Dryden reminisces with youthful volunteer Todd Graves about his Sleeping Children Around the World program he founded 20 years(...)

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Comforting work. Murray Dryden reminisces with youthful volunteer Todd Graves about his Sleeping Children Around the World program he founded 20 years(...)

Date9/10/1990

Names

Calleja, Frank (photographer)

Dryden, Murray (subject)

Sleeping Children Around the World (Organization) (subject)

Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

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Original Toronto Star caption: Comforting work. Murray Dryden reminisces with youthful volunteer Todd Graves about his Sleeping Children Around the World program he founded 20 years ago which has provided bedkits to more than 200,000 children in developing countries.

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Philanthropists

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Photographs

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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives

CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive

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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)

Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0044715F

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