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Title: Sun goddess
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Creator: Banks, Peter
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: 1965
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: Photograph was edited for publication purposes
Photograph caption dated May 1, 1965 reads, "Flower Fair Florist Shop of Encino last night won the Sweepstakes award at the annual Las Floristas Fancy Headdress Ball at the Beverly Hilton with 'Sun Goddess,' taken from the cultures of the Aztecs and Mayans. Worn by Mrs. Nelson B. Gross Jr. the simulated hammered gold crown and statue are detailed with carnation petals of gold, citron and tangerine."
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00142251
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d050_f35_i22
CARL0005740182
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/70820
Subject: Las Floristas
Beverly Hilton Hotel (Beverly Hills, Calif.)
Floristas Headdress Ball (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Associations, institutions, etc.--California--Beverly Hills
Women--California--Beverly Hills
Fashion shows--California--Beverly Hills
Headdresses--California--Beverly Hills
Floral decorations--California--Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills (Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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