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Lorene Convirs pins a sorority pin on Dorothy Paxton while Harriet Womack looks on, Los Angeles, 1935

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Title: Lorene Convirs pins a sorority pin on Dorothy Paxton while Harriet Womack looks on, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa August 23, 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.
Lorene Convirs pins a sorority pin on Dorothy Paxton while Harriet Womack looks on. All three women wear uniforms and the sleeve of Ms. Convirs' appears to read, "Sullivan Beauty College."
Text from newspaper caption: Cosmetologists Win Emblem: Misses Dorothy Paxton, Harriet Womack, and Lorene Convirs of Sigma Beta Chi proudly are wearing their new sorority pins. The organization is the largest of its sort in the United States and is established for the purpose of promoting the highest ideals in cosmetology. Miss Helen Wehlast Stoeffler is president [Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 1935: A5]
Handwritten on negative: Dorothy Paxton, Harriet Womack, Lorene Convirs
Text from negative sleeve: 1781- Sigma Beta Chi. Misses Dorothy Paxton, Harriet Womack, Lorene Convirs. [Stamped:] Aug 27 1935
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_10167
ark:/21198/zz002ddz1g
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Fraternities & sororities--California--Los Angeles
Convirs, Lorene
Womack, Harriet
Paxton, Dorothy
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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