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Title: Miss California Bathing Beauty contestants, view 2
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1936
Publication Information: Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce
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: The Miss California Bathing Beauty Contest was held as part of the Venice Mardi Gras. View 2 shows a young woman wearing a bathing suit and playing the accordion; a stuffed seagull with extended wings sits atop the instrument. Dozens of other live gulls can be seen behind her, in full flight as well as next to the water's edge. This may have been part of the talent portion of the contest. Photo dated: 1936.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00070574
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
S-002-353.2 4x5; Beaches-Women.
CARL0000073801
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/115672
Subject: Miss California Bathing Beauty Contest (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Musical instruments--California--Los Angeles
Beauty contests--California--Los Angeles
Bathing suits--California--Los Angeles
Carnival--California--Los Angeles
Beaches--California--Venice (Los Angeles)
Venice (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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