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Description
View 1 (2016-2653) -- view 2 (2016-2655) -- view 3 (2016-2656) -- view 4 (2016-2657) -- view 5 (2016-2658) -- view 6 (2016-2659) -- view 7 (2016-2660). From the David Stoddard Atwood collection, T&D collection. Bust-length portraits and portraits in costume. Kay Atwood; Born Lena Copeland Basquette in 1907 in San Mateo, Calif. Trained as dancer, featured as baby ballerina for Victor Talking Machine Company's exhibit at the Panama Pacific International Exhibition in 1915. Picked up by Universal Pictures shortly after, was with Ziegfeld Follies beginning in 1923, billed as "America's Prima Ballerina" (name changed to Lina Basquette). Eventually retired from films to raise champion Great Danes in Pennsylvania. Died in 1994.
Type
image
Format
Unmediated Sheet Portraits. Nonprojected graphic
Extent
7 photographs : prints ; 10 x 8 in. or smaller.
Identifier
(C)001567824CSL01-Aleph
Language
English
Subject
Basquette, Lina--Portraits Dancers--United States Actresses--California--Los Angeles Photographic prints Portrait photographs
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