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Photocollage of the Hamburger Home for Girls with portraits of founders Mrs. Jennie A. Marx, Mrs. Belle A. Nathan and Miss Evelyn Hamburger, Los Angeles, 1928

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Title: Photocollage of the Hamburger Home for Girls with portraits of founders Mrs. Jennie A. Marx, Mrs. Belle A. Nathan and Miss Evelyn Hamburger, Los Angeles, 1928
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa February 1928]
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.
The Hamburger Home for Girls was founded by the Hamburger sisters: Jennie A. Marx, Belle A. Nathan and Evelyn Hamburger. Myron Hunt and HC Chambers are the credited architects for the Jewish Alliance Club House which would later be repurposed as the Hamburger Home for Girls.
This photograph is similar to one published with the article, "Merchant's Wealth Provides Shelter for Girls: Hamburger Home to Open," Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 1928: A1.
Text from newspaper caption for similar photograph: The Hamburger Home at Girard street and Union avenue and (inset above left to right) Mrs. J. H. Marx, Mrs. Belle A. Nathan and Mrs. Evelyn Hamburger...
Text caption on negative reads: Jewish Alliance Club House Los Angeles California. Myron Hunt and HC Chambers architects Los Angeles.
Text on negative sleeve: Hamburger Home for Girls.
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_5102
ark:/21198/zz002cv2j3
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Welfare facilities $California--Los Angeles
Clubhouses--California--Los Angeles
Nathan, Belle A. Hamburger, 1869 or 70-1940
Hamburger, Evelyn, 1868-1961
Marx, Jennie Hamburger, 1965-1953
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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