Image / Joy Garland strikes a ballet pose, Los Angeles, 1927

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Title: Joy Garland strikes a ballet pose, Los Angeles, 1927
Date Created and/or Issued: December 1927
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.
Photograph appears with the article, "Children to Partake in Film Fiesta," Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec 1927: B3.
Several children have offered their entertainment services for the Film Church Fiesta, a benefit affair staged by the Church of St. Mary of the Angels in Hollywood.
Joy is positioned in front of a dark curtain, one arm pointing upward and the other held parallel to her chest. She bends her head halfway backwards and gives a partial smile for the camera as she balances on the tips of her toes. Typed at the top of the photograph is JOY GARLAND BABY "STAR DANCER".
Text from negative sleeve: GARLAND, JOY DANCER
Text from newspaper caption: Joy Garland
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_4805
ark:/21198/zz002ctq96
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Posing
Costumes--American
Ballet dancers--California--Los Angeles
Children--California--Los Angeles
Garland, Joy
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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