Image / Bathing beauty parade, Venice Mardi Gras

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Title: Bathing beauty parade, Venice Mardi Gras
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
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: A bevy of beauties parade down a platform "catwalk" in the Bathing Beauty Parade, held at the Venice Beach Mardi Gras. Throngs of people are visible on both sides of the raised platform, watching the girls as they pass. Photograph taken on August 14, 1939.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00008857
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA (9427); Venice-Contests.
CARL0000010838
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/83288
Subject: Beauty contests--California--Los Angeles
Women--California--Los Angeles
Crowds--California--Los Angeles
Beaches--California--Venice (Los Angeles)
Venice (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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