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Title
One woman being weighed by another from the YWCA's Ladies Be Slim Club
Contributor
Unknown (Creator)
Contributing Institution
San José State University, Special Collections and Archives
Collection
YWCA of Silicon Valley Collection
Rights Information
Copyright is assigned to the San José State University Special Collections & Archives. All requests for permission to publish or quote from this collection must be submitted in writing to the Director of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Special Collections & Archives. Copyright restrictions may apply to digital reproductions of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes. For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact San Jose State University Special Collections & Archives department. http://library.sjsu.edu/sjsu-special-collections/sjsu-special-collections-and-archives
Description
Photograph shows two women in the YWCA's Ladies Be Slim Club. The lady on the right is standing on a scale with her shoes off and her hand on the right side of her face. She is laughing. The other woman is standing in front of her and is holding three different die-cuts on strings. They are a star, a turtle and a pig. She is holding the pig out towards the woman on the scale.
On verso: "Ladies Be Slim Club-"
1950; 1951; 1952; 1953; 1954; 1955; 1956; 1957; 1958; 1959
Scanned with Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL Pro; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 24-bit RGB color. Auto Level image processing applied and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS3
Type
image
Format
image/jpeg
10 x 8.25 in.
Identifier
islandora:82_178
filename: ywca_1950_036
islandora: 82_178
Language
English
Subject
Young Women's Christian Association
Clubs
Scales
Weight loss
Women
Place
California

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