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 of Veneranta Somerville at the LA County Fair petting a first place winning rooster. In the background there are cages with other chickens and roosters. This photograph appears with the article, “Brilliant Displays Carry Out ‘Silver Top’ Theme in Tri-County Fair at Pomona,” Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 1934: 16. Handwritten on negative: Veneranta Somerville. Text from newspaper caption: Veneranta Somerville of Huntington Park admires first prize Barred Rock rooster, entered by Arnold E. Dibley of Van Nuys. Text from negative sleeve: Los Angeles County Fair, 1934.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_5624 ark:/21198/zz002cvpjs
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Fairs--California--Pomona Roosters Los Angeles County Fair (Los Angeles County, Calif.) Somerville, Veneranta, 1922-1956
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