Image / Greek dancer Madame Calliope Charissi, Los Angeles County, 1925

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Title: Greek dancer Madame Calliope Charissi, Los Angeles County, 1925
Date Created and/or Issued: 1925
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: Greek dancer Madame Calliope Charissi in a dance pose. She is standing, slightly bent on her back, with her eyes closed and her right arm in the air. Related article "MOTHER OF ELEVEN TO OPEN STUDIO: Mme. Charissi, Teacher of Dancing, Declares Family No Bar to Career," Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 1928: A3.
Text from negative sleeve: Charissi, Calliope Mme. 1925.
Handwritten on negative: Mme. Calliope Charissi
Type: image
Format: b&w glass negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_b3698_G1009
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Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Dancers--American
Charissi, Calliope, b.1881
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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