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Title
Clown on stilts dancing with tall puppet, advertising dance marathon, Santa Monica, 1928
Contributor
University of California, Los Angeles. -- Library. -- Dept. of Special Collections (repository)
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966 (photographer)
Contributing Institution
UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection
Bartlett (Adelbert) Papers
Rights Information
copyrighted
The copyright holder of these items has granted the UC Regents permission to make them publicly available on the web.
Description
Date from Los Angeles Times article, April 8, 1928: Car Again Chosen to Officially Lead Dancers: "The Essex has again been chosen as the official pace car for the Endurance Dance Marathon which ends at Ocean Park, after starting from Los Angeles on April 19"
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 2499, Clyde Stiltz, Clown, 759 Crane Blvd, Los Angeles, Garfield 8754, Ocean Park. [Struck out in pencil: 2276 - 2277 - 2278 - 2279]
Clown on stilts, in checked outfit and whiteface, dancing with tall woman puppet, feet attached to stilt feet, near crooked lampposts and building with wooden porch
Handwritten at edge of negative: 2499 P4
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic negative
Identifier
edu.ucla.library.specialCollections.bartlett:1534
uclamss_1300_1553
1553
ark:/21198/zz002bxd88
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Puppets
Clowns
Stilts
Dance marathons -- California -- Santa Monica
Place
California
Santa Monica
Relation
Adelbert Bartlett Papers. Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA

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