Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. A list of participants in the preparation of the new model home created by The Times including the architects, painters, and the companies that supplied such amenities as the heating and ventilating, plumbing, and hardware. A group of people gather outside of the model home, where Mrs. Gifford stands in the doorway to greet them. Photograph appears with the article, "Participants in Preparation of Model Dwelling," Los Angeles Times, 02 June 1935: D3. Text from negative sleeve: LAT /Demo homes 1- print 1 may Text from newspaper caption: This picture shows visitors at The Times model home, at the Los Angeles' National Housing Exposition, being welcomed by Mrs. Lillian Gifford, hostess at the home. It is estimated that around 130,000 visitors will have inspected this home before the housing show ends. Seventy-five thousand visitors viewed this dwelling in the first ten days of the exposition. Details of how this home may be acquired are published elsewhere in The Times today. Handwritten on negative: Times Model Home - Housing Xposition
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_2740 ark:/21198/zz002dck1q
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Model houses--California--Los Angeles Plants--California--Los Angeles Gifford, Lillian
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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