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Title: Loretta of the Pearls
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1932
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Mrs. Nanette Marcus as "Loretta of the Pearls" on May 20, 1932, in a pageant presented by the California Women of the Golden West. Legend relates she adored pearls and wanted more of them than anyone else, so a swain stole pearls from the Madonna in a little church in Carmel. He was pursued, and Loretta jumped with him from a cliff into the sea, in one version, and in another she discarded the pearls as a sin when he was jailed.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00057054
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1783.
CARL0000060787
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/22224
Subject: Marcus, Nanette
Costumes
Women--California--Los Angeles
Pearls--California--Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
California Women of the Golden West

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