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Description
Photograph of Sunset Club members in whiskers at a banquet "on the whiskers", ca.1900. About fifty club members are posed behind a long banquet table that is covered in the remains of a large feast. Most of the men are wearing plaid or checked shirts and many of them are wearing fake beards. The room in which they are gathered is decorated by portraits on the walls and leafy vines on the ceiling. The banquet table has flowers and more vines.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w 21 x 26 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
Associations, institutions, etc Societies Clubs Costume Dinners and dining Los Angeles County--Los Angeles--Social organizations--Sunset Club Sunset Club Buildings
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
California Los Angeles USA
Source
1-93- [Microfiche number] 11323 [Accession number] CHS-11323 [Call number] California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
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