Image / Mexican film actress Mona Rico, Los Angeles, 1928

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Title: Mexican film actress Mona Rico, Los Angeles, 1928
Date Created and/or Issued: 1928
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: A portrait of child film actress Mona Rico, from Mexico, at the time that she came under contract for an acting job because of her beautiful hands. Photo (cropped) appears with the article "Court ties beauty to screen job," Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 1928: A5.
Text from negative sleeve: Rico, Mona. Actress.
Text from newspaper caption: Hands' appeal of actress gains job
Handwritten on negative: Mona Rico
Type: image
Format: b&w glass negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_b3726_G4202
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Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Child labor--Law and legislation--California--Los Angeles
Child actors--California--Los Angeles
Rico, Mona, 1907-1994
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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