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Title
Peggy Hamilton modeling an ermine wrap over an evening gown, 1929
Date Created and/or Issued
1929
Contributing Institution
UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection
Adams (Peggy H.) papers
Rights Information
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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Peggy Hamilton modeling a fur wrap of Russian ermine with a sable border from Beckman's Exclusive Fur Shop on West Seventh Street in Los Angeles. The cape is lined in hand-painted satin trimmed with ermine tails and is worn over an evening gown. Hamilton also wears a dark, long-haired wig coiled into a figure-8 low in the back of the neck.
A different photograph of Peggy Hamilton wearing this wrap appears in her Los Angeles Times feature "Fashions," December 22, 1929. The photograph credit for this image on the "Fashions" page is Elmer Fryer.
Handwritten on edge of negative: A 32
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1373_0214
ark:/21198/zz002bzkfq
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Evening dresses (garments)
Satin
Capes (outerwear)
Fur
Adams, Peggy Hamilton, 1890-1984
Source
Adams (Peggy Hamilton) Papers

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