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Title: Bathing beauty contestants giving dogs a bath
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1936
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: In these two photographs, women in swimsuits from the Miss California Bathing Beauty Contest, held as part of the 1936 Venice Mardi Gras, are shown giving dogs a bath. Miss Venice is visible in the frame at right, kneeling on the sand with what appears to be a dachsund. Photographs taken August 9, 1936.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00009075
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
N-003-517.3 4x5; N-003-517.4 4x5; Venice-Beaches.
CARL0000011003
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/83390
Subject: Miss California Bathing Beauty Contest (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Beaches--California--Venice (Los Angeles)
Dogs--California--Los Angeles
Venice (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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