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W. A. Ferguson, cartoonist, draws a picture of contest winner, Harold Dowit at the Food and Household Show, Los Angeles, 1932

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Title: W. A. Ferguson, cartoonist, draws a picture of contest winner, Harold Dowit at the Food and Household Show, Los Angeles, 1932
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa Feburary 1932]
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: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
W. A. Ferguson, cartoonist, draws a picture of contest winner, Harold Dowit at the Food and Household Show, sponsored by the Southern California Retail Grocers Association. Ferguson (known as "Ferg") was the Sperry Flour Company cartoonist. Dowit holds a box of Wheaties. The caricature of Dowit is only complete as far as his head, and written above that is, "Harold Dowit National Winner Skippy Contest." At the back of the exhibit, there are stacks of products, including Wheaties and Bisquick. There is also a sign that reads, "Hear me on the radio every day! Wheaties taste elegenter [sic] than elegant. Shippy," and a sign at the top of the exhibit reads, in part," Sperry Drifted Snow 'Home...'"
A different photograph of W. A. Ferguson and Harold Dowit taken on the same occasion appears with the article, "Annual Food and Household Show Will Open Today," Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 1932: A7.
Text from negative sleeve: Food Show 1932
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_4677
ark:/21198/zz002ctjwk
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Exhibitions--California--Los Angeles
Cartoonists
Food industry--California--Los Angeles
Shrine Auditorium (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Dowit, Harold
Southern California Retail Grocers Association
Ferguson, W. A
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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