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Title
Gwen Steele with an especially large carpet at the National Housing Exposition, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued
1935
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
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Gwen leans against a table decorated with a vase and gestures at the carpet that is draped along the wall high above her head and stretches out along the floor.
Photograph appears with the article, "Home Show Extended," Los Angeles Times, 02 June 1935: 31.
Homeowners have been awarded an extra week's opportunity at the National Housing Exposition at the Pan-Pacific Auditorium on Beverly Boulevard east of Fairfax Avenue.
Text from newspaper caption: Here is the $98,000 Royal Mashad carpet which features Bullock's showing of modern and period furniture. Shown standing near this great Persian rug, which is the second to the largest carpet in the world, is Mrs. Gwen Steele.
Handwritten on negative: Gwen Steele-Bullocks Rug -
Text from negative sleeve: NATIONAL HOUSING EXPOSITION National Housing Exposition X
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_6776
ark:/21198/zz002cx28v
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Floor coverings
Vases
Steele, Gwen
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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