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Adelene Yerbysmith ringing antique ship's bell to open Los Angeles Boat Show, Los Angeles, 1930

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Title: Adelene Yerbysmith ringing antique ship's bell to open Los Angeles Boat Show, Los Angeles, 1930
Date Created and/or Issued: March 30, 1930
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.
This photograph appears with the article “First Los Angeles Boat Show Brings Tang of Seven Seas to Landsmen.” Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 1930: 8
Adelene Yerbysmith, in dress, hat, and velvet jacket, leaning over round marble or stone table, both hands on large metal bell with chipped edge, reading 1813, with sailboats in background. Adelene Yerbysmith was probably the daughter of sculptor Ernest Yerbysmith.
Text from newspaper caption: A Ship’s Bell, Cast in 1813 and Salvaged From an Ancient Wreck, is Rung by Adelene Yerby as Gates Swing Open.
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: Boat show, March 1930
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_1054
1054
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Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Bells
Boat & ship industry--California--Los Angeles
Yerbysmith, Adelene, b. 1911 or 12
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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