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Norma Boleslavsky with actors Ivan Lebedeff and David Mir, admiring a collection of Russian artifacts, Los Angeles, 1932

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Title: Norma Boleslavsky with actors Ivan Lebedeff and David Mir, admiring a collection of Russian artifacts, Los Angeles, 1932
Date Created and/or Issued: April 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.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Romanoffs' Property Shown," Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr 1932: A2.
The collection included jewelry, tapestries, tableware, toiletries, and many other objects and belonged to Dr. Armand Hammer. It was exhibited at Russian decorative arts artifacts on exhibition at Bullock's Wilshire, and was assessed at a value of around $500,000.
Text from negative sleeve: LEBEDEFF, IVAN 1931 (article w/close-up image dated 4/28/32)
Handwritten on negative: Ivan Lebedeff, David Mir, Norma Boleslavsky
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_5479
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Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Exhibitions--California--Los Angeles
Actors--Russian--California--Los Angeles
Decorative Arts--Russian--California--Los Angeles
Bullock's Wilshire (Department store)
Mir, David, 1886-1962
Lebedeff, Ivan, 1894-1953
Boleslavsky, Norma, b. 1905 or 06-1978
Hammer, Armand, 1898-1990
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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