Image / Model Elsie McDonald in satin negligee, Times Fashion Show, Los Angeles, 1936

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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
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
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.
This photograph appears with the article, "Smart Styles of ‘Times’ First Annual Spring Fashion Show Thrill Throngs." Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 1936.
Text from newspaper caption: Elsie McDonald is wearing negligee of hammered satin. Broadway-Hollywood model
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 2595, 2 of 2, NITRATE, March 26, 1936, 5 [struck out: 6] negs. Times Fashions
Handwritten at edge of negative: Elsie McDonald
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: 0096
uclamss_1429_0096
ark:/21198/zz002d99dn
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Fashion shows--California--Los Angeles
Media
Negligees
Fashion models--California--Los Angeles
People
Events
McDonald, Elsie
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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