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Title
Model Elsie McDonald in satin negligee, Times Fashion Show, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued
1936
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.
This photograph appears with the article, "Smart Styles of ‘Times’ First Annual Spring Fashion Show Thrill Throngs." Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 1936.
Elsie McDonald in long satin robe with high neck, wide belt, and bloused long sleeve. The show took place in the Los Angeles Times building on 202 West 1st Street, most likely inside what is now the Harry Chandler Auditorium.
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 2595, 2 of 2, NITRATE, March 26, 1936, 5 [struck out: 6] negs. Times Fashions
Text from newspaper caption: Elsie McDonald is wearing negligee of hammered satin. Broadway-Hollywood model
Handwritten at edge of negative: Elsie McDonald
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_0096
ark:/21198/zz002d99dn
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Fashion models--California--Los Angeles
Media
Fashion shows--California--Los Angeles
People
Events
Negligees
McDonald, Elsie
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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