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Female impersonator Johnnie David and five others seated at a table smoking and drinking, Hollywood, circa 1937

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Title: Female impersonator Johnnie David and five others seated at a table smoking and drinking, Hollywood, circa 1937
Date Created and/or Issued: [1937]
1937
Publication Information: Los Angeles Daily News
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Female impersonator Johnnie David and five unidentified "Hollywood degenerates" seated around a table smoking and drinking. On the wall is a Marx brothers poster.
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Hollywood degenerates; Johnnie David
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Hollywood degenerates
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: ark:/21198/zz0025gdk1
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: People
Cross dressing--California--Los Angeles
Lifestyle
Eating & drinking--California--Los Angeles
Female impersonators--California--Los Angeles
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
David, Johnnie
Source: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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