Image / Frankie Bailey pointing to her autographed apron, Los Angeles, 1925

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Title: Frankie Bailey pointing to her autographed apron, Los Angeles, 1925
Date Created and/or Issued: December, 1925
1925-12
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Frankie Bailey (Francesca Walters) collected signatures from hundreds of the "great and near-great" during her thirty-year career (ca. 1896-1926) on the stage and silver screen. These signatures were inscribed onto a single apron. Frankie would sew in the signed names to preserve them. A similar image taken on the same occasion appears with the article "Bungalow Apron Real Hall of Fame: Actress Conceived Idea at Beefsteak Feast," Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 1925: 16.
Text from negative sleeve: Bailey, Frankie. Apron.
Handwritten on negative: Frankie Bailey
Type: image
Format: b&w glass negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_b3692_G254
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Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Actors--American--California--Los Angeles
Autographs
Aprons--California--Los Angeles
Bailey, Frankie, 1859-1953
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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